Royalton Fire District 1, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.5 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.
Royalton Fire District 1 at a glance
Royalton Fire District 1 serves about 1,500 people through 375 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 surface water, in Windsor County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005330; phone on file: 802-763-8974. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Royalton Fire District 1's lead record
That is up 6.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Royalton Fire District 1 is 6.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Royalton Fire District 1 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. Royalton Fire District 1's 6.5 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Vermont and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Windsor County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Royalton Fire District 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Springfield Water Dept | 9,800 | 1.6 ppb |
| Hartford Water Dept | 7,600 | 2.4 ppb |
| Chester Water Dept | 3,200 | 2.5 ppb |
| Ludlow Village Water Dept | 2,880 | 1.8 ppb |
| Town Of Woodstock Water Department | 2,473 | 3.5 ppb |
| Windsor Water Dept | 2,350 | 2.7 ppb |
| Quechee Central | 2,262 | 3.2 ppb |
| Bethel Water Dept | 1,929 | 2.5 ppb |
| Jackson Gore Okemo | 1,695 | 0 (not detected) |
| Solitude Water System | 976 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for South Royalton, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; South Royalton, 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 Royalton Fire District 1 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.