Earlysville Forest, VA
Lead reported as not detected
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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Earlysville Forest serves about 488 people through 196 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Albemarle County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2003255; phone on file: 804-749-8868. 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 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Earlysville Forest is 11.5 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.91 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.53 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 2.25 ppb |
| 2017 | 8.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.8 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. Earlysville Forest's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 30th percentile in Virginia and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Albemarle County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Earlysville Forest. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Acsa Urban Area | 77,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| Acsa Crozet | 12,415 | 0 (not detected) |
| Acsa Scottsville | 710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Keswick Estates | 504 | 8 ppb |
| Peacock Hill Subdivision | 475 | 1.35 ppb |
| Miller School | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Acsa Red Hill | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woods Edge Subdivision | 110 | 0 (not detected) |
| Langford Subdivision | 97 | 6.11 ppb |
| Faith Mission Home | 95 | 1.14 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Earlysville Forest's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Earlysville Forest 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.