Brookneal, Town Of, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (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. 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.
Brookneal, Town Of at a glance
Brookneal, Town Of serves about 1,500 people through 515 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 surface water, in Campbell County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5031175; phone on file: 434-376-3124. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Brookneal, Town Of's lead record
That is up 1.4 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brookneal, Town Of is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
How Brookneal, Town Of 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. Brookneal, Town Of's 2.6 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Virginia and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Campbell County
7 other systems share Campbell County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Brookneal, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Campbell County Central System | 21,761 | 9.92 ppb |
| Altavista, Town Of | 3,850 | 1.5 ppb |
| Campbell County East System | 2,505 | 0 (not detected) |
| Knoll Woods/Ivy Acres | 360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rustburg Correctional Unit #9 | 142 | 1.76 ppb |
| Locust Gardens Mhp | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastbrook Mobile Home Court | 56 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brookneal, 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 Brookneal, Town Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.