Jay Peak Water System, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Jay Peak Water System
Jay Peak Water System serves about 6,740 people through 521 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orleans County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005565; phone on file: 802-327-2114. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.8 ppb from 4.8 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jay Peak Water System is 7.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 7.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 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. Jay Peak Water System's 3 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Vermont and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Orleans County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Jay Peak Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Derby Mhp | 265 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
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 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.