Gatling Pointe, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Gatling Pointe at a glance
Gatling Pointe serves about 1,470 people through 588 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Isle Of Wight County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3093260; phone on file: 757-357-4843. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Gatling Pointe's lead record
That is down 2.34 ppb from 2.34 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gatling Pointe is 2.34 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.34 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.15 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. Gatling Pointe's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 36th percentile in Virginia and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Isle Of Wight County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gatling Pointe. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Smithfield, Town Of | 8,089 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northern Development Service Dist. | 7,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| Windsor, Town Of | 2,400 | 3.77 ppb |
| Camptown | 855 | - |
| Clydes Dale Community | 600 | 4.58 ppb |
| Smithfield Heights/Sandy Mount Manor | 475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wrenns Mill Estates | 372 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carrsville | 313 | 3.39 ppb |
| Lawnes Point | 228 | 0 (not detected) |
| Days Point | 225 | 0.85 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Gatling Pointe'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 Gatling Pointe 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.