Cardinal House, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Cardinal House at a glance
Cardinal House serves about 36 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Augusta County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2015119; phone on file: 540-943-1470. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Cardinal House's lead record
That is down 4.46 ppb from 4.46 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cardinal House is 4.69 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 4.46 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.69 ppb |
How Cardinal House 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. Cardinal House's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Virginia and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Augusta County
18 other systems share Augusta County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cardinal House. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South River Sanitary District | 26,083 | 0 (not detected) |
| Verona - Weyers Cave | 7,808 | 1 ppb |
| Dooms - Acsa | 2,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| Craigsville, Town Of | 2,340 | 3.87 ppb |
| Churchville - Acsa | 1,150 | 2 ppb |
| Blackburn - Acsa | 1,023 | 2 ppb |
| Country Estates Mobile Home Park | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harriston - Acsa | 288 | 2 ppb |
| Augusta Springs - Acsa | 273 | 1 ppb |
| Shenandoah Acres | 227 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Cardinal House'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 Cardinal House 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.