Gold Hill Village, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 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.
Gold Hill Village at a glance
Gold Hill Village serves about 22 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Buckingham County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5029200; phone on file: 434-581-2605. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Gold Hill Village's lead record
That is down 5.73 ppb from 8.43 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gold Hill Village is 8.43 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 8.43 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.46 ppb |
How Gold Hill Village 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. Gold Hill Village's 2.7 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Virginia and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Buckingham County
2 other systems share Buckingham County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gold Hill Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Buckingham Co Water System | 5,759 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary | 150 | 1.25 ppb |
Next steps for New Canton, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Canton, 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 Gold Hill Village 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.