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Can You Drink Tap Water in New Haven?
Yes, tap water is drinkable.
Tap Safe includes data from many publicly available sources, including the WHO (World Health Organization), CDC (Center for Disease Control), and user submitted databases, but unfortunately there's not enough data about New Haven.
To see user submitted ratings of the water quality for Connecticut, see the "User Submitted Ratings" box on this page.
Where does New Haven’s water come from? Ten lakes and three aquifers are the sources of your water. The lakes are filled with rivers. Aquifers are natural sand, gravel, and bedrock areas below the ground surface that are saturated with water, typically from rainfall. Over 80 percent of the tap water in the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority’s water district comes from lakes located in Hamden, Woodbridge, East Haven, Bethany, Guilford, Madison, Killingworth, Branford, and North Branford. In contrast, the balance of the tap water comes from the Quinnipiac and Mill River aquifers located in Cheshire and Hamden and the Housatonic River aquifer in Derby and Seymour.
South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority’s distribution system is interconnected. Water from two or more sources may be delivered to some neighborhoods. This blending of water not only permits South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority to meet your water demands, especially during a heatwave but readily ensures that water is available to fight a fire or other emergency. Is New Haven’s water safe to drink? Does New Haven put fluoride in the water?
The estimated price of bottled water
$2 in USD (1.5-liter)
USER SUBMITTED RATINGS
- Drinking Water Pollution and Inaccessibility
- Water Pollution
- Drinking Water Quality and Accessibility
- Water Quality
The above data is comprised of subjective, user submitted opinions about the water quality and pollution in New Haven, measured on a scale from 0% (lowest) to 100% (highest).
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Contaminants
Regional Water Authority
EWG's drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the Connecticut Department of Public Health, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO). For the latest quarter assessed by the U.S. EPA (January 2019 - March 2019), tap water provided by this water utility was in compliance with federal health-based drinking water standards.
Utility details
- Serves: 418900
- Data available: 2012-2017
- Data Source: Surface water
- Total: 22
Contaminants That Exceed Guidelines
- Bromodichloromethane
- Chloroform
- Chromium (hexavalent)
- Dibromoacetic acid
- Dibromochloromethane
- Dichloroacetic acid
- Haloacetic acids (HAA5)†
- Nitrate
- Nitrate and nitrite
- Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs)†
- Trichloroacetic acid
Other Detected Contaminants
- 1
- 4-Dioxane
- Barium
- Bromide
- Bromoform
- Chlorate
- Chromium (total)
- Fluoride
- Monochloroacetic acid
- Nitrite
- Strontium
- Vanadium
Reminder
Always take extra precautions, the water may be safe to drink when it leaves the sewage treatment plant but it may pick up pollutants during its way to your tap. We advise that you ask locals or hotel staff about the water quality. Also, note that different cities have different water mineral contents.