DrinkingWaterCheck

Is UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - MAIN CAMPUS's water safe to drink?

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - MAIN CAMPUS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 27,199 people get their water from it, across 287 connections.

How this compares nationally

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - MAIN CAMPUS has 20 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,028th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 61th percentile nationally.

Against the CT average

Among the 73 CT systems in this dataset, the average is 2.6 health-based violations - UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - MAIN CAMPUS's 3 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - MAIN CAMPUS's most recent violation on record is dated 2017-01-09, with the most recent health-based one dated 2003-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/29/2026.

The concern categories on record

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - MAIN CAMPUS'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:

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 UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - MAIN CAMPUS's record does not cover

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - MAIN CAMPUS'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 UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - MAIN CAMPUS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,028th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.