Cedar Bluff, Town Of, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.69 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.
Cedar Bluff, Town Of at a glance
Cedar Bluff, Town Of serves about 1,400 people through 717 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Tazewell County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA1185085; phone on file: 276-964-3975. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.69 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedar Bluff, Town Of is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.69 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
How Cedar Bluff, Town Of 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. Cedar Bluff, Town Of's 2.69 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Virginia and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tazewell County
17 other systems share Tazewell County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Cedar Bluff, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bluefield, Town Of | 5,811 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tazewell, Town Of | 5,007 | 6.27 ppb |
| Richlands, Town Of | 4,564 | 0 (not detected) |
| Baptist Valley | 3,857 | 0 (not detected) |
| Claypool Hill Tazewell Co Psa | 3,322 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern Tazewell County | 2,952 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tcpsa - Raven/Doran | 2,644 | 0 (not detected) |
| Falls Mills - Tcpsa | 870 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tcpsa - Gratton | 707 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tcpsa - Jewell Ridge | 605 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cedar Bluff, 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 Cedar Bluff, Town Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.