Pico Village Water Corp, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.5 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.
Who runs the water here
Pico Village Water Corp serves about 89 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rutland County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005238; phone on file: 802-767-3697. 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 up 1.8 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pico Village Water Corp is 35 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 35 ppb over 15 |
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. Pico Village Water Corp's 3.5 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Vermont and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
49 other systems share Rutland County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pico Village Water Corp. 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 Hancock, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hancock, 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 Pico Village Water Corp 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.