Aqua Haven, VT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Aqua Haven at a glance
Aqua Haven serves about 150 people through 42 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 groundwater, in Essex County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005110; phone on file: 802-578-1446. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Aqua Haven's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aqua Haven is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Aqua Haven's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Vermont and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Essex County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aqua Haven. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brighton Water System | 1,200 | 1.3 ppb |
| Canaan Fire District 1 | 970 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lunenburg Fire District 2 | 400 | 2.4 ppb |
| Canaan Fd #2 | 350 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lunenburg Fire District 1 | 250 | 2.1 ppb |
| Guildhall Water System | 136 | 1 ppb |
| Bloomfield Water System | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for East Haven, VT
Look up your address in Aqua Haven's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Aqua Haven 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.