Elmore Water District, VT
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.4 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. 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.
Elmore Water District at a glance
Elmore Water District serves about 32 people through 14 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 Lamoille County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005152; phone on file: 802-793-6318. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 8.7 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elmore Water District is 10.4 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
How Elmore Water District 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. Elmore Water District's 10.4 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Vermont and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lamoille County
21 other systems share Lamoille County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elmore Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Stowe Water Dept | 3,600 | 14.3 ppb |
| Smugglers Notch Water System | 2,960 | 4.9 ppb |
| Morrisville Water And Light | 2,935 | 2.4 ppb |
| Johnson Village Water Dept | 1,350 | 2.2 ppb |
| Jeffersonville Water System | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hyde Park Water System | 462 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sterling View Cooperative Community Inc | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hyde Park Fire District 1 | 275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cambridge Village Water | 262 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountainside Resort | 240 | 2.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Elmore, 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 Elmore Water District 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.