Intervale/Clearwater Park, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Intervale/Clearwater Park serves about 1,332 people through 443 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 Alleghany County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2005440; phone on file: 540-863-6650. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Intervale/Clearwater Park is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 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. Intervale/Clearwater Park's 0.5 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Virginia and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Alleghany County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Intervale/Clearwater Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clifton Forge, Town Of | 3,884 | 2.4 ppb |
| Pounding Mill | 1,965 | 3.5 ppb |
| Selma / Low Moor / Valley Ridge | 1,884 | 0.87 ppb |
| Cliftondale Park/ Wilson Creek/ Sharon | 1,860 | 2.7 ppb |
| Rosedale/Callaghan | 858 | 0.82 ppb |
| Cherokee | 504 | 0.46 ppb |
| Iron Gate, Town Of | 408 | 1.54 ppb |
| Wesgate | 288 | 1.5 ppb |
| Longdale Furnace | 70 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Covington, 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 Intervale/Clearwater Park 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.