Jay Peak Subdivision Ii, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Jay Peak Subdivision Ii at a glance
Jay Peak Subdivision Ii serves about 66 people through 24 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: VT0005201; phone on file: 802-327-2114. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.4 ppb from 0.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jay Peak Subdivision Ii is 56 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 56 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 56 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Jay Peak Subdivision Ii's 2 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Vermont and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Orleans County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Jay Peak Subdivision Ii. 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 Jay, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jay, 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 Jay Peak Subdivision Ii 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.