Passumpsic Fire District 1, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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.
Passumpsic Fire District 1 at a glance
Passumpsic Fire District 1 serves about 140 people through 53 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 Caledonia County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005031; phone on file: 802-274-1440. 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 10.8 ppb from 12 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Passumpsic Fire District 1 is 12 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 4.1 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. Passumpsic Fire District 1's 1.2 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Vermont and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Caledonia County
19 other systems share Caledonia County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Passumpsic Fire District 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St Johnsbury Water System | 5,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lyndonville Water System | 4,000 | 2.7 ppb |
| Hardwick Town Water System | 1,900 | 3.2 ppb |
| Burke Mountain Water Co | 1,058 | 1.1 ppb |
| Danville Fire District 1 | 500 | 1.3 ppb |
| St Johnsbury Center F D 1 | 370 | 6.7 ppb |
| East Hardwick Fire District 1 | 350 | 0.6 ppb |
| Barnet Fire District #2 | 205 | 8 ppb |
| Sutton Water System | 185 | 3.9 ppb |
| Mcindoe Falls Fire District 3 | 176 | 1.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Passumpsic, 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 Passumpsic Fire District 1 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.