Smith Haven Center, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 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.
About Smith Haven Center
Smith Haven Center serves about 36 people through 24 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: VT0005583; phone on file: 802-367-5245. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Smith Haven Center's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Smith Haven Center is 19 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 8.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
How Smith Haven Center 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. Smith Haven Center's 2.5 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Vermont and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Windham County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Smith Haven Center. 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 |
Next steps for Manchester, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Manchester, 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 Smith Haven Center 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.