Fiddlehead Condominiums, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.9 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Fiddlehead Condominiums
Fiddlehead Condominiums serves about 60 people through 23 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: VT0005504; phone on file: 802-496-4760. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Fiddlehead Condominiums's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (4.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fiddlehead Condominiums is 170 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 103 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 170 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 8 ppb |
| 2016 | 22 ppb over 15 |
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. Fiddlehead Condominiums's 3.9 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Vermont and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
41 other systems share Washington County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fiddlehead Condominiums. 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) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Waitsfield, 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 Fiddlehead Condominiums 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.