Rutland Town Fire District 5, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Rutland Town Fire District 5
Rutland Town Fire District 5 serves about 110 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very 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: VT0005429; phone on file: 802-236-8277. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Rutland Town Fire District 5's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (3.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rutland Town Fire District 5 is 18.4 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 18.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 18.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
Against other Vermont systems
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. Rutland Town Fire District 5's 3.8 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Vermont and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
49 other systems share Rutland County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rutland Town Fire District 5. 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 |
| Pittsford Florence Water Dept | 1,652 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mountain Green Condominium | 1,300 | 4.9 ppb |
| Wallingford Fire District 1 | 956 | 4.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rutland, 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 Rutland Town Fire District 5 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.