Dal-Nita Hills, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.7 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.
Who runs the water here
Dal-Nita Hills serves about 130 people through 37 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Botetourt County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2023730. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Dal-Nita Hills's lead record
That is down 8.5 ppb from 12.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dal-Nita Hills is 12.2 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2025 | 12.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.09 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.64 ppb |
How Dal-Nita Hills 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. Dal-Nita Hills's 3.7 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Virginia and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Botetourt County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dal-Nita Hills. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain View | 2,773 | 2.27 ppb |
| Rainbow Forest | 1,665 | 1.74 ppb |
| Buchanan, Town Of | 1,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fincastle, Town Of | 952 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Oak Estates | 930 | 3.47 ppb |
| Ashley Plantation | 875 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakwood/Parkview | 630 | 1.13 ppb |
| Troutville, Town Of | 500 | 7.2 ppb |
| Brookfield | 415 | 0 (not detected) |
| Heatherstone/Botetourt Forest | 356 | 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 Dal-Nita Hills 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.