Royal Pine Villa, MA
Exceeded the action level in the past
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. 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.
Royal Pine Villa at a glance
Royal Pine Villa serves about 55 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bennington County, Massachusetts. EPA system ID: VT0005027; phone on file: 508-740-5726. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Royal Pine Villa is 39 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 39 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Royal Pine Villa compares
Of the 535 Massachusetts systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.7 ppb; 13 are over 15 ppb right now and 66 have gone over at some point. Royal Pine Villa's 1.4 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Massachusetts and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bennington County
1 other system shares Bennington County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Royal Pine Villa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| White Birches Mhp | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Westboro, MA 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 Royal Pine Villa whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 18600 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.