Driftwood Beach, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Driftwood Beach
Driftwood Beach serves about 125 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4193360; phone on file: 804-446-9822. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Driftwood Beach is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
How Driftwood Beach 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. Driftwood Beach's 2 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Virginia and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Westmoreland County
23 other systems share Westmoreland County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Driftwood Beach. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Colonial Beach, Town Of | 3,875 | 0 (not detected) |
| Potomac Westmoreland Shores | 1,743 | 1 ppb |
| Cabin Point And Glebe Harbour | 1,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stratford Harbour | 1,230 | 2 ppb |
| Montross, Town Of | 1,163 | 0 (not detected) |
| Placid Bay Estates | 946 | 0 (not detected) |
| Berkley Beach - Ebb Tide Beach | 892 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westmoreland County Industrial Park | 802 | 5.88 ppb |
| Monroe Bay Estates | 475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kinsale, Town Of | 198 | 2.45 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hopewell, 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 Driftwood Beach 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.