Alpine Haven, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Alpine Haven at a glance
Alpine Haven serves about 250 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orleans County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005208; phone on file: 570-906-0005. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alpine Haven is 130 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 8.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 8.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 130 ppb over 15 |
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. Alpine Haven's 1.8 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Vermont and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
21 other systems share Orleans County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alpine Haven. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jay Peak Water System | 6,740 | 3 ppb |
| Newport City Water System | 4,766 | 2.3 ppb |
| Derby Center Water System | 1,400 | 2 ppb |
| Barton Water System | 950 | 2 ppb |
| North Troy Water System | 864 | 2.5 ppb |
| Orleans Water System | 846 | 4.7 ppb |
| Greensboro Fire District 1 | 551 | 1.1 ppb |
| Craftsbury Fire District 2 | 420 | 2.8 ppb |
| Newport Center Water System | 330 | 0.7 ppb |
| Troy Water System | 315 | 5.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newport, 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 Alpine Haven whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1400 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.