Heritage Estates, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.55 ppb (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. 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
Heritage Estates serves about 80 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Culpeper County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA6047300; phone on file: 804-749-8868. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heritage Estates is 1.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.55 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.1 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. Heritage Estates's 0.55 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Virginia and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
32 other systems share Culpeper County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heritage Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Culpeper, Town Of | 21,184 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coffeewood Correctional Center | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clevengers Village | 1,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairview Acres | 336 | 7 ppb |
| Dutch Hollow Subdivision | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood Forest | 188 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pelham Manor | 183 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brenridge Subdivision | 175 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedarbrooke Subdivision | 163 | 1.2 ppb |
| Overlook Heights Combined | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rockville, 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 Heritage Estates 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.