University Of Connecticut - Main Campus, CT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.6 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About University Of Connecticut - Main Campus
University Of Connecticut - Main Campus serves about 27,199 people through 287 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws surface water, in Tolland County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0780021; phone on file: 860-486-3208. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
University Of Connecticut - Main Campus's lead record
That is up 6.9 ppb from 0.7 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for University Of Connecticut - Main Campus is 7.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.6 ppb |
How University Of Connecticut - Main Campus compares
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. University Of Connecticut - Main Campus's 7.6 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Connecticut and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
63 other systems share Tolland County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than University Of Connecticut - Main Campus. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| Stafford Hollow Water Association | 429 | 4.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Storrs, 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 University Of Connecticut - Main Campus 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.