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EWG's Tap Water Database — 2021 UPDATE

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Vermont

  • 416 Utilities

  • Serving: 519,000

  • Data available: 2014-2019

  • Contaminants Found: 67

 

EWG's drinking water quality report for Vermont shows results of tests conducted by the water utilities in Vermont and provided to EWG by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation.

LARGE UTILITIES
ALL UTILITIES WITH VIOLATIONS

Below are utilities in Vermont serving over 10,000 people, listed alphabetically.

Large utilities in Vermont

UtilityLocationPeople
Served
Barre City Water SystemBarre, VT14,000
Bennington Water DepartmentBennington, VT13,250
Brattleboro Water DepartmentBrattleboro, VT12,200
Burlington Department Public Works Water DivBurlington, VT42,000
Champlain Water DistrictSouth Burlington, VT70,000
Rutland City Water DepartmentRutland, VT18,500
South Burlington City Water SystemSo Burlington, VT15,296

Utilities that accumulated/accrued the most violation points as of April 2019 to March 2021 in Vermont

The Environmental Protection Agency's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database collects compliance and enforcement-related information for drinking water utilities nationwide. ECHO water quality violation scores take into account federal health-based water quality standards, as well as monitoring, reporting and other drinking water quality requirements. Points are accrued based on specific problems at the utility - violations of health-based drinking water standards receive more points than monitoring and reporting violations - and the length of time until the violations were corrected.

UtilityLocationPeople
Served
Violation
Points
Okemo Village CondominiumsNew City, VT18074
Hemlock Ridge CondominiumKillington, VT6355
East Mountain Mobile Home ParkBennington, VT7620
Ryegate Fire District 2E Ryegate, VT13117
Union House Nursing HomeGlover, VT5616
Northwoods Village ApartmentsPlainfield, VT13015
Suntec Forest CondominiumW Dover, VT24011
Country Club CondominiumBurlington, VT8010
Parsons Hill PartnershipCastleton, VT329
Franklin Water SystemFranklin, VT4008
Ascutney Fd #2Ascutney, VT4858
Rochester Water SystemRochester, VT4407
Murray HillMontpelier, VT2126
Ledges System 1Mount Holly, VT2526
Colonial Estates Water CorporationRutland, VT2006
Mcindoe Falls Fire District 3Mcindoe Falls, VT1766
Eastfield Condominium Association Inc.Milton, VT636
Wells River Water SystemWells River, VT4906
Club Sugarbush Water SystemWarren, VT2455
Rutland Town Fire District 6Rutland, VT1375
Battleground CondominiumWaitsfield, VT1665
Winterplace Water SystemLudlow, VT7005
Arlington Water DepartmentArlington, VT1,2505
Danby Mount Tabor F D 1Danby, VT3855
Cortina Inn ResortKillington, VT2164
Colonial Estates Homeowners AssociationFairfax, VT793
Hyde Park Fire District 1N Hyde Park, VT2753
Burke Fire District 1East Burke, VT1423
South Hero Fire District 4South Hero, VT7603
East Calais Fire District 1East Calais, VT2003

Large utilities that accumulated/accrued the most violation points as of April 2019 to March 2021 in Vermont

The Environmental Protection Agency's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database collects compliance and enforcement-related information for drinking water utilities nationwide. ECHO water quality violation scores take into account federal health-based water quality standards, as well as monitoring, reporting and other drinking water quality requirements. Points are accrued based on specific problems at the utility - violations of health-based drinking water standards receive more points than monitoring and reporting violations - and the length of time until the violations were corrected.

UtilityLocationPeople
Served
Violation
Points

Contaminants found in Vermont above health guidelines

Found above health guidelinesFound
Contaminant# of UtilitiesPeople Served# of UtilitiesPeople Served

Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
252477,556252477,556

Bromodichloromethane
241466,608241466,608

Chloroform
215441,695245467,580

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
113363,349113363,349

Dichloroacetic acid
105356,302105356,302

Trichloroacetic acid
104349,293104349,293

Radium, combined (-226 & -228)
215310,542206310,390

Nitrate
208267,806270317,534

Dibromochloromethane
157152,968159168,968

Haloacetic acids (HAA9)
29142,36230144,062

Chlorate
1697,38634151,073

Chromium (hexavalent)
2995,81634151,073

Bromoform
4134,3037483,981

Dibromoacetic acid
1117,5801117,580

Arsenic
1811,2451811,245

Uranium
279,408309,678

Manganese
189,061162347,845

Nitrate and nitrite
42,91142,911

Bromochloroacetic acid
21,44821,448

Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene)
19851985

Styrene
164232,163

Radon
32113211

1,2,3-Trichloropropane
11261126

Thallium
11051105

Contaminants found in Vermont above legal limits

Contaminant# of UtilitiesPeople Served

Radium, combined (-226 & -228)
3213

Thallium
1105

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
1102