Fork Mountain Adult Rest Home, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.2 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Fork Mountain Adult Rest Home serves about 58 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5067129; phone on file: 540-483-8800. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.2 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fork Mountain Adult Rest Home is 5.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
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. Fork Mountain Adult Rest Home's 5.2 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Virginia and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Franklin County
26 other systems share Franklin County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fork Mountain Adult Rest Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mount, Town Of | 6,000 | 0.51 ppb |
| Westlake Area Public Water System | 3,525 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wvwa Ferrum Water System | 1,996 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Waters Edge | 949 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dillards Hill | 755 | 0 (not detected) |
| Park Place | 501 | 3.5 ppb |
| Boones Mill Town Of | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burnt Chimney Water System | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Franklin Acres | 200 | 2.93 ppb |
| Walnut Run | 196 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Rocky Mount, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rocky Mount, 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 Fork Mountain Adult Rest Home whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3305 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.