Cherokee Hills, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.3 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.
About Cherokee Hills
Cherokee Hills serves about 60 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5067070; phone on file: 540-283-2944. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 8.6 ppb from 12.9 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherokee Hills is 12.9 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 12.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 9.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.3 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. Cherokee Hills's 4.3 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Virginia and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Franklin County
26 other systems share Franklin County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cherokee Hills. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mount, Town Of | 6,000 | 0.51 ppb |
| Westlake Area Public Water System | 3,525 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wvwa Ferrum Water System | 1,996 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Waters Edge | 949 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dillards Hill | 755 | 0 (not detected) |
| Park Place | 501 | 3.5 ppb |
| Boones Mill Town Of | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burnt Chimney Water System | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Franklin Acres | 200 | 2.93 ppb |
| Walnut Run | 196 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Roanoke, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Roanoke, 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 Cherokee Hills whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2220 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.