Alpen Meadows, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About Alpen Meadows
Alpen Meadows serves about 112 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Windsor County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005359; phone on file: 914-747-7453. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Alpen Meadows's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (2.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alpen Meadows is 6.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Alpen Meadows's 2.5 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Vermont and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Windsor County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alpen Meadows. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Springfield Water Dept | 9,800 | 1.6 ppb |
| Hartford Water Dept | 7,600 | 2.4 ppb |
| Chester Water Dept | 3,200 | 2.5 ppb |
| Ludlow Village Water Dept | 2,880 | 1.8 ppb |
| Town Of Woodstock Water Department | 2,473 | 3.5 ppb |
| Windsor Water Dept | 2,350 | 2.7 ppb |
| Quechee Central | 2,262 | 3.2 ppb |
| Bethel Water Dept | 1,929 | 2.5 ppb |
| Jackson Gore Okemo | 1,695 | 0 (not detected) |
| Royalton Fire District 1 | 1,500 | 6.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rutland, 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 Alpen Meadows 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.