Stafford Hollow Water Association, CT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Stafford Hollow Water Association serves about 429 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tolland County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT1341303; phone on file: 860-315-0911. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Stafford Hollow Water Association's lead record
That is up 4.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stafford Hollow Water Association is 5.51 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 5.51 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.7 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 493 Connecticut systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.8 ppb; 2 are over 15 ppb right now and 49 have gone over at some point. Stafford Hollow Water Association's 4.8 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Connecticut and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
63 other systems share Tolland County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stafford Hollow Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| University Of Connecticut - Main Campus | 27,199 | 7.6 ppb |
| Ctwc - Hebron Center Division | 1,927 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tolland Water Department | 1,251 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Amston Lake Division | 910 | 1.3 ppb |
| Ctwc - Uconn South Eagleville Div. | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Northern Reg - Lakewood/Lakeview | 748 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Coventry Hills Div | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - South Coventry System | 501 | 3.2 ppb |
| Woodhaven Apartments | 489 | 0.6 ppb |
| Vernon Village Inc. | 430 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stafford, CT may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Stafford Hollow Water Association whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.