Vernon Hall, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Vernon Hall at a glance
Vernon Hall serves about 50 people through 2 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: VT0020031; phone on file: 802-254-6041. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Vernon Hall is 21 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 9 ppb |
| 2024 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Vernon Hall 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. Vernon Hall's 3 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Vermont and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Windham County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vernon Hall. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vernon, 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 Vernon Hall whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1390 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.