Fauquier Springs, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Fauquier Springs serves about 160 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fauquier County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA6061114. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (2.69 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fauquier Springs is 74 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.69 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.36 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.22 ppb |
| 2022 | 74 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 14 ppb over 10 |
How Fauquier Springs 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. Fauquier Springs's 2.5 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Virginia and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
20 other systems share Fauquier County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fauquier Springs. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Warrenton, Town Of | 11,801 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Baltimore Regional | 8,818 | 2.73 ppb |
| Bealeton Regional | 4,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vint Hill | 2,449 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marshall Waterworks | 2,363 | 0 (not detected) |
| Remington, Town Of | 1,540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadows, The | 733 | 0 (not detected) |
| Opal Regional | 643 | 2.31 ppb |
| Plains, The | 566 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bethel Academy Subdivision | 346 | 1.33 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Warrenton, 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 Fauquier Springs 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.