Birch Island Apartments, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Birch Island Apartments
Birch Island Apartments serves about 128 people through 8 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sussex County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3183820; phone on file: 804-834-8930. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.6 ppb from 3.6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Birch Island Apartments is 3.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Birch Island Apartments 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. Birch Island Apartments's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Virginia and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Sussex County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Birch Island Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Northeast Regional Water Systems | 3,214 | 7.71 ppb |
| Waverly, Town Of | 2,640 | 1 ppb |
| Wakefield, Town Of | 1,116 | 2.62 ppb |
| Stony Creek, Town Of | 273 | 3.42 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Birch Island Apartments's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Birch Island Apartments 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.