Putney School, VT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Putney School
Putney School serves about 310 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Windham County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0006624; phone on file: 802-387-6231. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Putney School's lead record
That is down 2.4 ppb from 2.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Putney School is 14 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 14 ppb over 10 |
How Putney School compares
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. Putney School's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Vermont and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Windham County
42 other systems share Windham County; 31 of them have a higher latest lead result than Putney School. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brattleboro Water Dept | 12,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winhall Stratton F D 1 | 6,200 | 1.9 ppb |
| Bellows Falls Water Dept | 4,000 | 1.8 ppb |
| Chimney Hill | 2,594 | 4.6 ppb |
| Town Of Wilmington Water System | 1,400 | 2 ppb |
| Putney Water System | 1,300 | 2.6 ppb |
| Timber Creek Coa Inc | 1,116 | 4.8 ppb |
| Cold Brook Fd Base Area | 761 | 14.3 ppb |
| Cold Brook Fire District 1 | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seasons On Mount Snow | 623 | 1.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Putney School's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Putney School 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.