Gables Ii Water System, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.4 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.
About Gables Ii Water System
Gables Ii Water System serves about 22 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Rutland County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0021570; phone on file: 802-775-3300. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 6.5 ppb from 1.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gables Ii Water System is 134 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 134 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.7 ppb |
How Gables Ii Water System 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. Gables Ii Water System's 8.4 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Vermont and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
49 other systems share Rutland County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gables Ii Water System. 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 |
What to do in your house
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 Gables Ii Water System 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.