Bottoms Bridge, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.14 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 Bottoms Bridge
Bottoms Bridge serves about 2,510 people through 946 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in New Kent County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4127200; phone on file: 804-966-9625. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bottoms Bridge's lead record
That is up 2.14 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bottoms Bridge is 2.14 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.14 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Bottoms Bridge 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. Bottoms Bridge's 2.14 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Virginia and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in New Kent County
17 other systems share New Kent County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bottoms Bridge. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Central Water System | 7,864 | 3.52 ppb |
| New Kent Courthouse | 3,187 | 2.33 ppb |
| Woodhaven Shores | 1,365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Parham Landing | 561 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Colonies | 548 | 2.57 ppb |
| Wood`S Edge | 488 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockahock Campgrounds, Inc | 375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Five Lakes No 1 | 360 | 1.39 ppb |
| Cumberland Hospital | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookwood Manor | 230 | 1.53 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Kent, 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 Bottoms Bridge 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.