East Middlebury Fd 1, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
East Middlebury Fd 1 serves about 642 people through 260 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 Addison County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005003; phone on file: 802-382-8522. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Middlebury Fd 1 is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How East Middlebury Fd 1 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. East Middlebury Fd 1's 1 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in Vermont and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Addison County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Middlebury Fd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Middlebury Water Dept | 9,379 | 8.6 ppb |
| Vergennes Panton Water District | 5,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tri Town Water District | 3,800 | 2.6 ppb |
| Bristol Water Dept | 2,103 | 1.2 ppb |
| Starksboro Village Water Coop | 350 | 0.5 ppb |
| Lazy Brook Mhp | 205 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookside Mhp | 135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whiting Water Corp | 61 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; East Middlebury, 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 East Middlebury Fd 1 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.