Lexington, City Of, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 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. 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.
About Lexington, City Of
Lexington, City Of serves about 7,500 people through 2,806 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water. EPA system ID: VA2678375; phone on file: 540-463-3154. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.8 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lexington, City Of is 90.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 90.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 3.7 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. Lexington, City Of's 3.8 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Virginia and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lexington, 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 Lexington, City Of 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.