Castleton Fire District 3, VT
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Castleton Fire District 3
Castleton Fire District 3 serves about 500 people through 312 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 Rutland County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0020889; phone on file: 802-278-8013. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 7.5 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Castleton Fire District 3 is 16.2 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 12.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 16.2 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. Castleton Fire District 3's 12.5 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Vermont and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rutland County
49 other systems share Rutland County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Castleton Fire District 3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rutland City Water Dept | 18,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brandon Fire District 1 | 3,963 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fair Haven Water Dept | 3,076 | 2.4 ppb |
| Poultney Water Dept | 2,400 | 2.5 ppb |
| West Rutland Town | 2,400 | 2.2 ppb |
| Proctor Water Dept | 2,000 | 4.3 ppb |
| Castleton Fire District 1 | 1,940 | 1.5 ppb |
| Pittsford Florence Water Dept | 1,652 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mountain Green Condominium | 1,300 | 4.9 ppb |
| Wallingford Fire District 1 | 956 | 4.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bomoseen, 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 Castleton Fire District 3 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.