Alburgh Fire District 1, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Alburgh Fire District 1 at a glance
Alburgh Fire District 1 serves about 87 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Grand Isle County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005137. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Alburgh Fire District 1's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alburgh Fire District 1 is 10 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 10 ppb |
Against other Vermont systems
Of the 372 Vermont systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.4 ppb; 7 are over 15 ppb right now and 65 have gone over at some point. Alburgh Fire District 1's 1 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Vermont and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Grand Isle County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alburgh Fire District 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| North Hero Water System | 2,750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grand Isle Consolidated Water District | 1,600 | 2.8 ppb |
| Grand Isle Fire District 4 | 1,078 | 6.3 ppb |
| South Hero Fire District 4 | 760 | 3.4 ppb |
| Alburgh Village Water System | 576 | 2.2 ppb |
| South Alburgh Fire District 2 | 300 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alburgh, VT may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Alburgh Fire District 1 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.