Bethel Academy Subdivision, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.33 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Bethel Academy Subdivision
Bethel Academy Subdivision serves about 346 people through 128 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 Fauquier County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA6061050; phone on file: 540-349-2092. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bethel Academy Subdivision's lead record
That is down 3.16 ppb from 4.49 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bethel Academy Subdivision is 4.49 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.33 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.49 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Bethel Academy Subdivision compares
Of the 996 Virginia systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 59 have gone over at some point. Bethel Academy Subdivision's 1.33 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Virginia and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Fauquier County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bethel Academy Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Warrenton, Town Of | 11,801 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Baltimore Regional | 8,818 | 2.73 ppb |
| Bealeton Regional | 4,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vint Hill | 2,449 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marshall Waterworks | 2,363 | 0 (not detected) |
| Remington, Town Of | 1,540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadows, The | 733 | 0 (not detected) |
| Opal Regional | 643 | 2.31 ppb |
| Plains, The | 566 | 0 (not detected) |
| Green Meadows Subdivision | 340 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Warrenton, VA 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 Bethel Academy Subdivision 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.