South Norwalk Electric & Water, CT Water Quality
Is South Norwalk Electric & Water's water safe to drink?
South Norwalk Electric & Water has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 42,000, over 9,682 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
South Norwalk Electric & Water has 76 violations on record in total, 5 of them health-based - ranking it 3,395th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 74th percentile nationally.
Against the CT average
CT's 73 covered systems average 2.6 health-based violations each; South Norwalk Electric & Water carries 5, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
South Norwalk Electric & Water's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-10-08, with the most recent health-based one dated 2019-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 06/29/2026.
The concern categories on record
South Norwalk Electric & Water'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); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Carbon, Total
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 South Norwalk Electric & Water's record does not cover
This is what South Norwalk Electric & Water 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. This record - 5 health-based violations on file for South Norwalk Electric & Water - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.