Town Of Woodstock Water Department, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.5 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.
Town Of Woodstock Water Department at a glance
Town Of Woodstock Water Department serves about 2,473 people through 777 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Windsor County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005343; phone on file: 802-457-3456. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 11.7 ppb from 15.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Woodstock Water Department is 19 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 15.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Town Of Woodstock Water Department 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. Town Of Woodstock Water Department's 3.5 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Vermont and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share Windsor County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Woodstock Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Springfield Water Dept | 9,800 | 1.6 ppb |
| Hartford Water Dept | 7,600 | 2.4 ppb |
| Chester Water Dept | 3,200 | 2.5 ppb |
| Ludlow Village Water Dept | 2,880 | 1.8 ppb |
| Windsor Water Dept | 2,350 | 2.7 ppb |
| Quechee Central | 2,262 | 3.2 ppb |
| Bethel Water Dept | 1,929 | 2.5 ppb |
| Jackson Gore Okemo | 1,695 | 0 (not detected) |
| Royalton Fire District 1 | 1,500 | 6.5 ppb |
| Solitude Water System | 976 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Woodstock, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Woodstock, 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 Town Of Woodstock Water Department 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.