New England Kurn Hattin Homes, 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.
New England Kurn Hattin Homes at a glance
New England Kurn Hattin Homes serves about 200 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Windham County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005452; phone on file: 802-376-6313. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 10 ppb from 12 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New England Kurn Hattin Homes is 19 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 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. New England Kurn Hattin Homes's 2 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Vermont and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Windham County
42 other systems share Windham County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than New England Kurn Hattin Homes. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brattleboro Water Dept | 12,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winhall Stratton F D 1 | 6,200 | 1.9 ppb |
| Bellows Falls Water Dept | 4,000 | 1.8 ppb |
| Chimney Hill | 2,594 | 4.6 ppb |
| Town Of Wilmington Water System | 1,400 | 2 ppb |
| Putney Water System | 1,300 | 2.6 ppb |
| Timber Creek Coa Inc | 1,116 | 4.8 ppb |
| Cold Brook Fd Base Area | 761 | 14.3 ppb |
| Cold Brook Fire District 1 | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seasons On Mount Snow | 623 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Westminster, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Westminster, 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 New England Kurn Hattin Homes 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.