Connecticut's Department of Public Health is providing free private well testing for a limited number of homeowners.
The agency plans to distribute water testing kits to the first 300 people who visit its booth at theHartford Home Show. The event runs from Friday through Sunday at the XL Center.
The kits allow homeowners to collect a sample, which will be analyzed for arsenic and uranium by the Department of Public Health Laboratory.
Brian Toal, the agency's epidemiologist, said both naturally occurring metals are found in groundwater around Connecticut because they're present in bedrock. They have no taste or odor and can only be detected through water testing.
For those people who can't obtain a free test kit at the fair, there areprivate laboratories available to conduct such testing.
