Bushfield, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 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.
Bushfield at a glance
Bushfield serves about 78 people through 29 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4193200; phone on file: 804-749-8868. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0.78 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bushfield is 1.46 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.78 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.46 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. Bushfield's 0.6 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Virginia and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Westmoreland County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bushfield. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Colonial Beach, Town Of | 3,875 | 0 (not detected) |
| Potomac Westmoreland Shores | 1,743 | 1 ppb |
| Cabin Point And Glebe Harbour | 1,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stratford Harbour | 1,230 | 2 ppb |
| Montross, Town Of | 1,163 | 0 (not detected) |
| Placid Bay Estates | 946 | 0 (not detected) |
| Berkley Beach - Ebb Tide Beach | 892 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westmoreland County Industrial Park | 802 | 5.88 ppb |
| Monroe Bay Estates | 475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kinsale, Town Of | 198 | 2.45 ppb |
Next steps for Rockville, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rockville, 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 Bushfield 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.