Tara Townhouses, VT
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.3 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 Tara Townhouses
Tara Townhouses serves about 48 people through 18 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: VT0005545; phone on file: 802-464-5749. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 4.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tara Townhouses is 11.2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 11.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 8 ppb |
How Tara Townhouses 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. Tara Townhouses's 4.3 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Vermont and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Windham County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tara Townhouses. 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 West Dover, VT
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 Tara Townhouses 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.