Langford Subdivision, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.11 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Langford Subdivision serves about 97 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Albemarle County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2003440; phone on file: 434-531-4910. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.91 ppb from 4.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Langford Subdivision is 26.6 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.11 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 6.94 ppb |
| 2021 | 26.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 1.51 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. Langford Subdivision's 6.11 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Virginia and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Albemarle County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Langford Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Acsa Urban Area | 77,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| Acsa Crozet | 12,415 | 0 (not detected) |
| Acsa Scottsville | 710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Keswick Estates | 504 | 8 ppb |
| Earlysville Forest | 488 | 0 (not detected) |
| Peacock Hill Subdivision | 475 | 1.35 ppb |
| Miller School | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Acsa Red Hill | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woods Edge Subdivision | 110 | 0 (not detected) |
| Faith Mission Home | 95 | 1.14 ppb |
Next steps for Charlottesville, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Charlottesville, 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 Langford Subdivision 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.