Woods At Killington, VT
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 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.
Who runs the water here
Woods At Killington serves about 450 people through 109 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rutland County, Vermont. EPA system ID: VT0005631; phone on file: 802-347-7303. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.7 ppb from 7.5 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woods At Killington is 38.3 ppb across 17 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 7.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 9 ppb |
| 2025 | 9.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 19.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 12.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 12.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 20.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 38.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 7.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
| 2016 | 13 ppb over 10 |
Against other Vermont systems
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. Woods At Killington's 4.8 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Vermont and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rutland County
49 other systems share Rutland County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woods At Killington. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rutland City Water Dept | 18,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brandon Fire District 1 | 3,963 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fair Haven Water Dept | 3,076 | 2.4 ppb |
| Poultney Water Dept | 2,400 | 2.5 ppb |
| West Rutland Town | 2,400 | 2.2 ppb |
| Proctor Water Dept | 2,000 | 4.3 ppb |
| Castleton Fire District 1 | 1,940 | 1.5 ppb |
| Pittsford Florence Water Dept | 1,652 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mountain Green Condominium | 1,300 | 4.9 ppb |
| Wallingford Fire District 1 | 956 | 4.1 ppb |
Next steps for Killington, VT
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Killington, 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 Woods At Killington 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.