Buchanan Co Psa, 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.
Buchanan Co Psa at a glance
Buchanan Co Psa serves about 19,326 people through 7,985 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Buchanan County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA1027061; phone on file: 276-935-5827. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Buchanan Co Psa's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buchanan Co Psa is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Buchanan Co Psa's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 47th percentile in Virginia and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Buchanan County
5 other systems share Buchanan County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buchanan Co Psa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Grassy Creek-Bcpsa | 440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Osborne Mountain - Bcpsa | 69 | - |
| Shortt Gap - Bcpsa | 64 | - |
| Page - Bcpsa | 50 | - |
| Bcpsa - Kennel Gap | - | - |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Buchanan Co Psa'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 Buchanan Co Psa 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.