West Torrington Water Hardness & Quality Report (2026)

West Torrington, Connecticut, a section of Torrington in Litchfield County — a major northwest Connecticut Litchfield County community (Torrington is the largest city in Litchfield County — a northwest Connecticut manufacturing and residential city in the Naugatuck River Valley), historically a major brass and manufacturing city (the Torrington–Naugatuck Valley area was the center of Connecticut's brass and needle manufacturing industry in the 19th century), a diverse Litchfield County community with a significant Puerto Rican-American population in the Naugatuck River corridor, and adjacent to the Litchfield Hills — the scenic northwest Connecticut rural landscape — draws its municipal water supply from the Naugatuck River and Highland Lake watershed via the Torrington Water Company. Water hardness in West Torrington measures 26.5 mg/L — classified as very soft.

West Torrington's very soft supply reflects the northwest Connecticut Litchfield Hills watershed's highly calcareous-poor crystalline geology. The Naugatuck River and Highland Lake at Torrington–Litchfield County drain: the Precambrian–Paleozoic calcareous-poor Berkshire Massif gneiss and Hartland Terrane schist (the highly resistant northwest Connecticut and Berkshire Mountains crystalline basement — virtually no dissolved calcium carbonate); and the calcareous-poor Connecticut Litchfield Hills granite and gneiss terrain. The calcareous-poor Litchfield Hills watershed produces the very soft 26.5 mg/L.

With hardness at 26.5 mg/L, West Torrington residents enjoy very soft water. Torrington Water Company consistently delivers water meeting all Connecticut DEEP and EPA Safe Drinking Water Act requirements.