Waitsfield Water Supply, VT
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Waitsfield Water Supply serves about 450 people through 229 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0020997; phone on file: 802-496-2218. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.4 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Waitsfield Water Supply is 1.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.6 ppb |
How Waitsfield Water Supply 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. Waitsfield Water Supply's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in Vermont and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
41 other systems share Washington County; 31 of them have a higher latest lead result than Waitsfield Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Barre City Water System | 14,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montpelier Water System | 8,912 | 2 ppb |
| Edward Farrar Utility District | 6,003 | 2.2 ppb |
| Northfield Water Dept | 5,145 | 5 ppb |
| Mountain Water Company | 2,400 | 1.8 ppb |
| Berlin Municipal Water System | 1,819 | 2 ppb |
| Barre Town Water System | 1,638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Central Vermont Medical Center | 1,528 | 6.1 ppb |
| Plainfield Water System | 985 | 2.6 ppb |
| Graniteville Fire District 4 | 700 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Waitsfield Water Supply's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Waitsfield Water Supply 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.