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Is Winooski, VT tap water safe?

Winooski Water Dept serves Winooski, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Vermont’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Winooski Water Dept serves Winooski. In EPA’s and Vermont’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 0.4 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Winooski Water Dept’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Winooski

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Vermont certifies.

The 3 labs Vermont certifies closest to Winooski, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

All 46 certified labs for Vermont

ZIP codes in Winooski

Which ZIP codes are in Winooski: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Vermont Department of Health, laboratories certified for drinking water analysis; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Winooski

Other towns in Chittenden County with a page of their own.

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