Submitted by UConn Extension
(March 30, 2025) — When was the last time you tested your water? UConn Extension has been working with the Old Saybrook Conservation Commission to provide reduced-cost well water tests to residents of Middlesex County and surrounding areas. Just because your water looks and tastes fine, that doesn’t always mean it’s safe to drink.
We are offering residents a well water test, normally valued at $350, for the reduced cost of $200 (cash or check). Participants can sign up online at https://s.uconn.edu/haddam-well-testing. These tests determine levels of coliform bacteria, lead, arsenic, uranium, nitrates, sodium, chloride, fluoride, pH, hardness, sulfate, turbidity, iron, and manganese.
We will mail a sample kit to participants who sign up in advance of the collection event. Sample kits also will be available at the Old Saybrook Environmental Fair on April 26, 2025 at Old Saybrook Middle School, 60 Sheffield St in Old Saybrook. The collection event will be held at the UConn Extension’s Middlesex County Extension Center at 1066 Saybrook Road in Haddam on May 3, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Sample kits can be delivered to the Haddam office only on May 3, 2025, but participants are welcome to bring the sample to the Radcliff Hicks Building on the UConn Main Campus in Storrs on any other Monday through Thursday between 6:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., at their convenience.
The deadline to sign up for a sample kit is April 25, 2025. For anyone who misses this date, sample kits also will be available at the collection event. These can be returned to Haddam the same day or to the UConn Main Campus. Samples will not be run without payment. Supplies are limited.
You can find more details about the program at our website: https://ctiwr.uconn.edu/welltesting/. Or email questions to: alec.janis@uconn.edu.
