Worthington Fire District, CT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.8 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Worthington Fire District serves about 2,875 people through 1,042 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Hartford County, Connecticut. EPA system ID: CT0070031; phone on file: 860-828-5630. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Worthington Fire District's lead record
That is down 2.4 ppb from 5.2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Worthington Fire District is 5.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Worthington Fire District 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. Worthington Fire District's 2.8 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Connecticut and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Hartford County
46 other systems share Hartford County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Worthington Fire District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan District Commission | 390,887 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Northern Reg-Western System | 101,313 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Britain Water Department | 73,534 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bristol Water Department | 52,079 | 0 (not detected) |
| Manchester Water Department | 51,198 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southington Water Department | 43,069 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hazardville Water Company | 18,544 | 0.7 ppb |
| Aquarion-Plainville Regional | 18,231 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ctwc - Unionville System | 14,693 | 2.4 ppb |
| Aquarion-Simsbury Regional | 14,691 | 0.3 ppb |
Next steps for Berlin, CT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Berlin, 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 Worthington Fire District 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.