Carver Gardens, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Carver Gardens serves about 163 people through 66 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in York County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3199200; phone on file: 804-749-8868. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Carver Gardens's lead record
That is down 1.83 ppb from 1.83 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Carver Gardens is 2.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.83 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.6 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. Carver Gardens's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Virginia and the 14th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share York County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Carver Gardens. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Yorktown Naval Weapons Station | 2,386 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lightfoot System | 1,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Queens Lake System | 1,375 | 4.58 ppb |
| York Terrace System | 755 | 1.56 ppb |
| Cheatham Annex | 632 | 1 ppb |
| Nelson Park | 530 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Rockville, VA
Look up your address in Carver Gardens'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 Carver Gardens 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.