Bear Creek Condominium, 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.
Who runs the water here
Bear Creek Condominium serves about 116 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Windham County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005563; phone on file: 802-297-5800. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bear Creek Condominium's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bear Creek Condominium is 1.3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.2 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. Bear Creek Condominium's 1 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in Vermont and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Windham County
42 other systems share Windham County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bear Creek Condominium. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brattleboro Water Dept | 12,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winhall Stratton F D 1 | 6,200 | 1.9 ppb |
| Bellows Falls Water Dept | 4,000 | 1.8 ppb |
| Chimney Hill | 2,594 | 4.6 ppb |
| Town Of Wilmington Water System | 1,400 | 2 ppb |
| Putney Water System | 1,300 | 2.6 ppb |
| Timber Creek Coa Inc | 1,116 | 4.8 ppb |
| Cold Brook Fd Base Area | 761 | 14.3 ppb |
| Cold Brook Fire District 1 | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seasons On Mount Snow | 623 | 1.7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stratton Mountain, 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 Bear Creek Condominium 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.