Faith Mission Home, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.14 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. 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.
Faith Mission Home at a glance
Faith Mission Home serves about 95 people through 5 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: VA2003260; phone on file: 434-985-2294. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.14 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Faith Mission Home is 58 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.14 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 58 ppb over 15 |
Against other Virginia systems
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. Faith Mission Home's 1.14 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Virginia and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Albemarle County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Faith Mission Home. 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 |
| Earlysville Forest | 488 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Free Union, 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 Faith Mission Home 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.