Fries, Town Of, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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
Fries, Town Of serves about 484 people through 300 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Grayson County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA1077240; phone on file: 276-744-2231. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fries, Town Of is 32.3 ppb across 16 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0.05 ppb |
| 2020 | 17.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 9 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.46 ppb |
| 2017 | 9 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 32.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Fries, Town Of 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. Fries, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th 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
8 other systems share Grayson County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fries, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Independence, Town Of | 971 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairview Water System | 730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grant Community | 350 | - |
| Oldtown Water System | 301 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Hill Academy | 225 | 32.5 ppb |
| Troutdale, Town Of | 220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sun Valley Trailer Park | 25 | 1.19 ppb |
| Virginia Carolina Water Authority | - | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fries, 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 Fries, Town Of 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.