Snow Mountain Village, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2028). 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.
Who runs the water here
Snow Mountain Village serves about 210 people through 80 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: VT0005623; phone on file: 802-464-5749. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Snow Mountain Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (2.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Snow Mountain Village is 44.1 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 14.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 44.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Snow Mountain Village's 1.8 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Vermont and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Windham County
42 other systems share Windham County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Snow Mountain Village. 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Dover, 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 Snow Mountain Village 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.