Is FAIRFIELD HILLS's water safe to drink?
FAIRFIELD HILLS has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. 2,610 people get their water from it, across 22 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
23 total violations and 2 health-based ones put FAIRFIELD HILLS at the 52th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,181 of 12,903.
How FAIRFIELD HILLS compares within CT
Among the 73 CT systems in this dataset, the average is 2.6 health-based violations - FAIRFIELD HILLS's 2 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for FAIRFIELD HILLS is from 2025-10-08 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
FAIRFIELD HILLS's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS; Lead and Copper Rule
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
FAIRFIELD HILLS's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and FAIRFIELD HILLS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,181th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.