Is HARTFORD's water safe to drink?
HARTFORD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 3,396 people through 1,255 service connections.
How this compares nationally
HARTFORD has 14 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,010th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 38th percentile nationally.
Against the SD average
HARTFORD's 1 health-based violations sit within the SD average of 3.0, across 74 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
HARTFORD's most recent violation on record is dated 2001-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 1996-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
The concern categories on record
HARTFORD'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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What HARTFORD's record does not cover
Everything on this page is HARTFORD's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and HARTFORD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,010th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.