Piper Ridge Condominium, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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
Piper Ridge Condominium serves about 362 people through 90 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bennington County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005592; phone on file: 802-353-5238. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.4 ppb from 4.3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Piper Ridge Condominium is 16.4 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 7.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 16.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1.3 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. Piper Ridge Condominium's 1.9 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Vermont and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Bennington County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Piper Ridge Condominium. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bennington Water Dept | 13,250 | 1.2 ppb |
| Bromley Water Company | 4,300 | 3.4 ppb |
| Manchester Water Dept | 4,140 | 2 ppb |
| North Bennington Water Dept | 1,700 | 1.6 ppb |
| Arlington Water Dept | 1,250 | 2.2 ppb |
| Bennington College | 1,000 | 2.6 ppb |
| Shaftsbury Water System | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pownal Fire District 2 | 682 | 1.3 ppb |
| Dorset Fire District 1 | 530 | 2.1 ppb |
| Readsboro Town Of | 375 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Mount Tabor, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mount Tabor, 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 Piper Ridge Condominium 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.