Drakes Branch, Town Of, VA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13.2 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Drakes Branch, Town Of serves about 530 people through 253 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: VA5037200; phone on file: 434-208-8470. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Drakes Branch, Town Of's lead record
That is up 10.34 ppb from 2.86 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Drakes Branch, Town Of is 13.2 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 2.86 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.21 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.76 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.54 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.92 ppb |
How Drakes Branch, Town Of 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. Drakes Branch, Town Of's 13.2 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Virginia and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Charlotte County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Drakes Branch, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Courthouse, Town Of | 1,975 | 7.16 ppb |
| Keysville, Town Of | 800 | 8.1 ppb |
| Phenix, Town Of | 206 | 3 ppb |
Next steps for Drakes Branch, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Drakes Branch, 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 Drakes Branch, Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1520 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.