Killington Upland Water Co Inc, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.6 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.
Who runs the water here
Killington Upland Water Co Inc serves about 518 people through 178 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rutland County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005632; phone on file: 802-431-7176. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Killington Upland Water Co Inc's lead record
That is down 2.4 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Killington Upland Water Co Inc is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
How Killington Upland Water Co Inc 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. Killington Upland Water Co Inc's 3.6 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Vermont and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
49 other systems share Rutland County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Killington Upland Water Co Inc. 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 |
Next steps for Killington, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Killington, 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 Killington Upland Water Co Inc 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.