Brownsburg Water Company, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.21 ppb (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. 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.
Brownsburg Water Company at a glance
Brownsburg Water Company serves about 40 people through 33 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rockbridge County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2163075; phone on file: 540-348-5920. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.21 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brownsburg Water Company is 3.21 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.21 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
Against other Virginia systems
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. Brownsburg Water Company's 3.21 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Virginia and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Rockbridge County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Brownsburg Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| N. Lexington-Fairfield-Raphine [Rcpsa] | 4,745 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glasgow, Town Of | 1,133 | 2.5 ppb |
| Natural Bridge Station / Arnolds Valley | 919 | 0 (not detected) |
| Long Hollow | 584 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goshen, Town Of | 375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rivermont Heights | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shady Rest Mobile Home Park | 30 | 4.62 ppb |
| Maury Service Authority | - | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brownsburg, 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 Brownsburg Water Company 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.