Blue Ridge School, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Blue Ridge School
Blue Ridge School serves about 260 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Greene County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2079125; phone on file: 434-992-0644. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Blue Ridge School's lead record
That is down 9.4 ppb from 9.4 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blue Ridge School is 9.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 9.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Blue Ridge School's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in Virginia and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Greene County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blue Ridge School. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greene County Water & Sewer | 8,500 | 0.38 ppb |
| Mountain Lakes Water Company | 2,304 | 10.1 ppb |
| Rippin Run Subdivision | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for St. George, VA
Look up your address in Blue Ridge School'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 Blue Ridge School 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.