Bradford Village Water System, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 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. 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.
About Bradford Village Water System
Bradford Village Water System serves about 1,512 people through 573 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Orange County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005170; phone on file: 802-222-4727. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 5.4 ppb from 8.5 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bradford Village Water System is 17 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 8.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 10.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
How Bradford Village Water System compares
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. Bradford Village Water System's 3.1 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Vermont and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Orange County
17 other systems share Orange County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bradford Village Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Randolph Village | 2,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Randolph Center Water System | 1,138 | 1.5 ppb |
| Williamstown Water Dept | 985 | 2.7 ppb |
| Fairlee Town Water | 967 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wells River Water System | 490 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newbury Village Inc | 480 | 1.6 ppb |
| Chelsea Water System | 450 | 5.6 ppb |
| Mobile Acres Mhp | 252 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Thetford Water Co | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington Fire District | 170 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Bradford, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bradford, 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 Bradford Village Water System 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.