River Road Apartments, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.7 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
River Road Apartments at a glance
River Road Apartments serves about 50 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lamoille County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005538; phone on file: 802-253-9314. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
River Road Apartments's lead record
That is up 6.7 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for River Road Apartments is 6.7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 6 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. River Road Apartments's 6.7 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Vermont and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
21 other systems share Lamoille County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than River Road Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Stowe Water Dept | 3,600 | 14.3 ppb |
| Smugglers Notch Water System | 2,960 | 4.9 ppb |
| Morrisville Water And Light | 2,935 | 2.4 ppb |
| Johnson Village Water Dept | 1,350 | 2.2 ppb |
| Jeffersonville Water System | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hyde Park Water System | 462 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sterling View Cooperative Community Inc | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hyde Park Fire District 1 | 275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cambridge Village Water | 262 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountainside Resort | 240 | 2.7 ppb |
Next steps for Stowe, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stowe, 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 River Road Apartments 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.