Hoges Chapel, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Hoges Chapel at a glance
Hoges Chapel serves about 1,114 people through 534 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 surface water, in Giles County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA1071300; phone on file: 540-921-2525. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hoges Chapel is 17.9 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 17.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 1.8 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. Hoges Chapel's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 35th percentile in Virginia and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Giles County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hoges Chapel. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pearisburg, Town Of | 2,760 | 1.6 ppb |
| Narrows, Town Of | 2,029 | 0.77 ppb |
| Pembroke, Town Of | 1,167 | 1.1 ppb |
| Rich Creek, Town Of | 960 | 1.9 ppb |
| Stoney Creek | 430 | 0 (not detected) |
| Route 100 Area | 295 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wolf Creek | 212 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glen Lyn, Town Of | 193 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lhoist North America Of Virginia | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ram/Wayside Community Water System | 147 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Pearisburg, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pearisburg, 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 Hoges Chapel 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.