Sunset Terrace Estates, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.5 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.
About Sunset Terrace Estates
Sunset Terrace Estates serves about 45 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005133; phone on file: 802-782-2735. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.2 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunset Terrace Estates is 3.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
How Sunset Terrace Estates 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. Sunset Terrace Estates's 3.5 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Vermont and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Franklin County
21 other systems share Franklin County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunset Terrace Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St Albans Water Dept | 10,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Swanton Village Water | 4,000 | 5 ppb |
| Enosburg Falls Water System | 1,700 | 2.2 ppb |
| Richford Water System | 1,700 | 1.6 ppb |
| Fairfax Water Dept | 1,550 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montgomery Water System | 530 | 1.6 ppb |
| South Georgia Fire District | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sheldon Water System | 480 | 1 ppb |
| Bakersfield Fire District 1 | 446 | 2 ppb |
| Franklin Water System | 400 | 0.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St Albans, 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 Sunset Terrace Estates 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.