Canaan Fd #2, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Canaan Fd #2 serves about 350 people through 113 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: VT0005107; phone on file: 802-266-3036. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Canaan Fd #2's lead record
That is down 1.6 ppb from 3.3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Canaan Fd #2 is 33 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 33 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Canaan Fd #2 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. Canaan Fd #2's 1.7 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Vermont and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Essex County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Canaan Fd #2. 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 |
| Lunenburg Fire District 1 | 250 | 2.1 ppb |
| Aqua Haven | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Guildhall Water System | 136 | 1 ppb |
| Bloomfield Water System | 50 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Canaan, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Canaan, 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 Canaan Fd #2 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1610 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.