Fort Warren Mhp, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Fort Warren Mhp serves about 129 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rutland County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005213; phone on file: 802-558-4041. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Fort Warren Mhp's lead record
That is up 1.8 ppb from 0.6 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Warren Mhp is 46.5 ppb across 16 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 8.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 10.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 46.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 10.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 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. Fort Warren Mhp's 2.4 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Vermont and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rutland County
49 other systems share Rutland County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Warren Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rutland City Water Dept | 18,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brandon Fire District 1 | 3,963 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fair Haven Water Dept | 3,076 | 2.4 ppb |
| Poultney Water Dept | 2,400 | 2.5 ppb |
| West Rutland Town | 2,400 | 2.2 ppb |
| Proctor Water Dept | 2,000 | 4.3 ppb |
| Castleton Fire District 1 | 1,940 | 1.5 ppb |
| Pittsford Florence Water Dept | 1,652 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mountain Green Condominium | 1,300 | 4.9 ppb |
| Wallingford Fire District 1 | 956 | 4.1 ppb |
Next steps for Rutland, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rutland, 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 Fort Warren Mhp 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.