Christmas Tree - Sundown Condominium, VT
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 58 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Christmas Tree - Sundown Condominium
Christmas Tree - Sundown Condominium serves about 110 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 Washington County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005589; phone on file: 802-496-5555. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 43.7 ppb from 14.3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Christmas Tree - Sundown Condominium is 58 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 58 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 15.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 8.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 9 ppb |
| 2016 | 7 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. Christmas Tree - Sundown Condominium's 58 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Vermont and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Washington County
41 other systems share Washington County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Christmas Tree - Sundown Condominium. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Barre City Water System | 14,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montpelier Water System | 8,912 | 2 ppb |
| Edward Farrar Utility District | 6,003 | 2.2 ppb |
| Northfield Water Dept | 5,145 | 5 ppb |
| Mountain Water Company | 2,400 | 1.8 ppb |
| Berlin Municipal Water System | 1,819 | 2 ppb |
| Barre Town Water System | 1,638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Central Vermont Medical Center | 1,528 | 6.1 ppb |
| Plainfield Water System | 985 | 2.6 ppb |
| Graniteville Fire District 4 | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Christmas Tree - Sundown 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.