Hardwick Town Water System, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.2 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
About Hardwick Town Water System
Hardwick Town Water System serves about 1,900 people through 803 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 Caledonia County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005039; phone on file: 802-472-5939. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.7 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hardwick Town Water System is 3.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.7 ppb |
Against other Vermont systems
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. Hardwick Town Water System's 3.2 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Vermont and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Caledonia County
19 other systems share Caledonia County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hardwick Town Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St Johnsbury Water System | 5,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lyndonville Water System | 4,000 | 2.7 ppb |
| Burke Mountain Water Co | 1,058 | 1.1 ppb |
| Danville Fire District 1 | 500 | 1.3 ppb |
| St Johnsbury Center F D 1 | 370 | 6.7 ppb |
| East Hardwick Fire District 1 | 350 | 0.6 ppb |
| Barnet Fire District #2 | 205 | 8 ppb |
| Sutton Water System | 185 | 3.9 ppb |
| Mcindoe Falls Fire District 3 | 176 | 1.5 ppb |
| Northeast Kingdom Mhp | 156 | 2.5 ppb |
Next steps for Hardwick, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hardwick, 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 Hardwick Town 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.