Childhelp, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
Childhelp at a glance
Childhelp serves about 110 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Culpeper County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA6047030; phone on file: 540-399-1860. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 6.8 ppb from 8.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Childhelp is 13.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 8.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 13.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 1.4 ppb |
How Childhelp 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. Childhelp's 1.4 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Virginia and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Culpeper County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Childhelp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Culpeper, Town Of | 21,184 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coffeewood Correctional Center | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clevengers Village | 1,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairview Acres | 336 | 7 ppb |
| Dutch Hollow Subdivision | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood Forest | 188 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pelham Manor | 183 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brenridge Subdivision | 175 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedarbrooke Subdivision | 163 | 1.2 ppb |
| Overlook Heights Combined | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Lignum, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lignum, 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 Childhelp 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.