Winhall Acres, NH
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 9.8 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2028). 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.
About Winhall Acres
Winhall Acres serves about 84 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bennington County, New Hampshire. EPA system ID: VT0005629; phone on file: 603-488-2141. 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 up 7.1 ppb from 2.7 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Winhall Acres is 43.1 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 4 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 9.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 11.7 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 8.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 17.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 43.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 8 ppb |
| 2016 | 22 ppb over 15 |
Against other New Hampshire systems
Of the 124 New Hampshire systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 16 ppb; 62 are over 15 ppb right now and 64 have gone over at some point. Winhall Acres's 9.8 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in New Hampshire and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bedford, NH 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 Winhall Acres 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.