Sunrise Community Water System, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.6 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. 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.
About Sunrise Community Water System
Sunrise Community Water System serves about 829 people through 258 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rutland County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005618; phone on file: 802-422-9501. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.2 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunrise Community Water System is 11 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 11 ppb over 10 |
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. Sunrise Community Water System's 3.6 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Vermont and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rutland County
49 other systems share Rutland County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunrise Community Water System. 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; Killington, 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 Sunrise Community Water System 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.