Cold Brook Fd Base Area, VT
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14.3 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. 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.
Cold Brook Fd Base Area at a glance
Cold Brook Fd Base Area serves about 761 people through 37 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 Windham County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005649; phone on file: 802-464-0460. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Cold Brook Fd Base Area's lead record
That is up 5.4 ppb from 8.9 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cold Brook Fd Base Area is 14.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 8.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 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. Cold Brook Fd Base Area's 14.3 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Vermont and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
42 other systems share Windham County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Cold Brook Fd Base Area. 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 Fire District 1 | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seasons On Mount Snow | 623 | 1.7 ppb |
| Greensprings | 485 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wilmington, 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 Cold Brook Fd Base Area 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.