Holbrook Bay Commons, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.9 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. 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 Holbrook Bay Commons
Holbrook Bay Commons serves about 95 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orleans County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005655; phone on file: 802-323-2986. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (5.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Holbrook Bay Commons is 5.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 5 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. Holbrook Bay Commons's 4.9 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Vermont and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Orleans County
21 other systems share Orleans County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Holbrook Bay Commons. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jay Peak Water System | 6,740 | 3 ppb |
| Newport City Water System | 4,766 | 2.3 ppb |
| Derby Center Water System | 1,400 | 2 ppb |
| Barton Water System | 950 | 2 ppb |
| North Troy Water System | 864 | 2.5 ppb |
| Orleans Water System | 846 | 4.7 ppb |
| Greensboro Fire District 1 | 551 | 1.1 ppb |
| Craftsbury Fire District 2 | 420 | 2.8 ppb |
| Newport Center Water System | 330 | 0.7 ppb |
| Troy Water System | 315 | 5.9 ppb |
Next steps for Newport Center, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newport Center, 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 Holbrook Bay Commons 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.