Harbor Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.5 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.
Harbor Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc at a glance
Harbor Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc serves about 30 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bedford County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5019360; phone on file: 540-890-3565. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Harbor Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc's lead record
That is up 3.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Harbor Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc is 3.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 3.3 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. Harbor Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc's 3.5 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Virginia and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Bedford County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Harbor Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford Regional Water Authority (Brwa) | 38,794 | 1.6 ppb |
| Montvale Water, Inc. | 698 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain View Shores | 490 | 2.5 ppb |
| Stewartsville Consecutive | 340 | 2.3 ppb |
| Hardy Road Trailer Park, Section 2 | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Virginia Ridge | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ridgeview Village | 128 | 0 (not detected) |
| Timber Ridge Subdivision | 110 | 5 ppb |
| Chamblissburg Mhc | 75 | - |
| Woodhaven Nursing Home | 75 | 2.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vinton, 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 Harbor Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.