Courtland, Town Of, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Courtland, Town Of
Courtland, Town Of serves about 1,284 people through 529 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 Southampton County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3175220; phone on file: 757-653-2222. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Courtland, Town Of is 43.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 43.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 4.78 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. Courtland, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 35th percentile in Virginia and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Southampton County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Courtland, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Correctional Center | 1,768 | 3.04 ppb |
| Boykins-Branchville System | 1,430 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newsoms Town Of | 550 | 2.48 ppb |
| Southampton Meadows | 500 | 10.3 ppb |
| Sedley | 486 | 2.61 ppb |
| Town Of Ivor | 410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Scottswood | 390 | 15 ppb |
| White Tail Resort | 356 | 2.4 ppb |
| Edgehill | 230 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nottoway Gardens | 200 | 5.85 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Courtland, 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 Courtland, 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.