Pittsford Florence Water Dept, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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. 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.
Pittsford Florence Water Dept at a glance
Pittsford Florence Water Dept serves about 1,652 people through 613 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Rutland County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005225; phone on file: 802-483-6778. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Pittsford Florence Water Dept's lead record
That is up 1.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pittsford Florence Water Dept is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Pittsford Florence Water Dept's 1.4 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Vermont and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
49 other systems share Rutland County; 33 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pittsford Florence Water Dept. 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 |
| Mountain Green Condominium | 1,300 | 4.9 ppb |
| Wallingford Fire District 1 | 956 | 4.1 ppb |
| Sunrise Community Water System | 829 | 3.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pittsford, 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 Pittsford Florence Water Dept 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.