Voluntown Housing Authority, CT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.92 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Voluntown Housing Authority
Voluntown Housing Authority serves about 42 people through 4 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in New London County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT1479021; phone on file: 860-376-5169. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.42 ppb from 4.5 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Voluntown Housing Authority is 15.2 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5.92 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 12.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 13.22 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 6.93 ppb |
| 2020 | 10.18 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 5.21 ppb |
| 2018 | 15.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.5 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. Voluntown Housing Authority's 5.92 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Connecticut and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
82 other systems share New London County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Voluntown Housing Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Norwich Public Utilities | 36,163 | 0 (not detected) |
| Groton Utilities | 30,200 | 1.1 ppb |
| New London Dept. Of Public Utilities | 27,620 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waterford Wpca | 16,578 | 1.5 ppb |
| East Lyme Water & Sewer Commission | 15,245 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aquarion-Mystic | 10,788 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jewett City Water Company | 6,840 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colchester Sewer & Water Commission | 4,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Shoreline Region-Sound View | 3,397 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ledyard Wpca - Ledyard Center | 3,294 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Voluntown, CT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Voluntown, 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 Voluntown Housing Authority 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.