Is SALMON BROOK DISTRICT WATER DEPT's water safe to drink?
SALMON BROOK DISTRICT WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,151 people through 456 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
SALMON BROOK DISTRICT WATER DEPT has 59 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,392th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.
How SALMON BROOK DISTRICT WATER DEPT compares within CT
Among the 73 CT systems in this dataset, the average is 2.6 health-based violations - SALMON BROOK DISTRICT WATER DEPT's 1 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for SALMON BROOK DISTRICT WATER DEPT is from 2027-06-12 (health-based: 2001-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SALMON BROOK DISTRICT WATER DEPT'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 this data is and is not
This is what SALMON BROOK DISTRICT WATER DEPT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and SALMON BROOK DISTRICT WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,392th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.