Water testing in Connecticut

Lowest price: Free, Connecticut Institute of Water Resources, University of Connecticut.

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Free PFAS Well Water Testing, select CT areas (UConn CTIWR)

Free

  • PFAS

Check your address on the CTIWR interactive eligibility map and sign up for event details and reminders to attend a PFAS testing event.

Only private well owners whose home address falls within select eligible areas shown on the program's interactive map qualify; if a home does not qualify now it may in the future

  • UConn CTIWR, W.B. Young Building Room 331B, 1376 Storrs Road, Unit 4087, Storrs · 860-486-2436

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UConn CTIWR Well Water Testing, Walk-In Drop-Off Program

$235

  • Bacteria
  • E. coli
  • Nitrate
  • Sodium
  • Chloride
  • +10 more

Sign up for the drop-off (walk-in) program online, collect your sample in the provided bottles no more than 5 hours before delivery, and bring it to the UConn Storrs campus.

Results are not state-certified and cannot be used for official purposes such as real estate transactions or town-mandated testing; program focuses on rural CT private well owners

  • UConn CTIWR, W.B. Young Building Room 331B, 1376 Storrs Road, Unit 4087, Storrs · 860-486-2436

Checked October 1, 2026. Report a change

Certified labs: Connecticut Department of Public Health, Private Well Program and Environmental Laboratory Certification Program

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