Newbury Village Inc, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Newbury Village Inc
Newbury Village Inc serves about 480 people through 171 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Orange County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005175; phone on file: 802-866-5395. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Newbury Village Inc is 4 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
| 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. Newbury Village Inc's 1.6 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Vermont and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Orange County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Newbury Village Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Randolph Village | 2,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bradford Village Water System | 1,512 | 3.1 ppb |
| Randolph Center Water System | 1,138 | 1.5 ppb |
| Williamstown Water Dept | 985 | 2.7 ppb |
| Fairlee Town Water | 967 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wells River Water System | 490 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chelsea Water System | 450 | 5.6 ppb |
| Mobile Acres Mhp | 252 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Thetford Water Co | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington Fire District | 170 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newbury, 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 Newbury Village 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.