Charlotte Courthouse, Town Of, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.16 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Charlotte Courthouse, Town Of at a glance
Charlotte Courthouse, Town Of serves about 1,975 people through 249 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 groundwater, in Charlotte County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5037150; phone on file: 434-542-5781. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Charlotte Courthouse, Town Of's lead record
That is down 1.08 ppb from 8.24 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Charlotte Courthouse, Town Of is 8.24 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.16 ppb |
| 2024 | 8.24 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.27 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 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. Charlotte Courthouse, Town Of's 7.16 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Virginia and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Charlotte County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Charlotte Courthouse, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Keysville, Town Of | 800 | 8.1 ppb |
| Drakes Branch, Town Of | 530 | 13.2 ppb |
| Phenix, Town Of | 206 | 3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Charlotte Courthouse, 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 Charlotte Courthouse, Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1620 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.