Lhoist North America Of Virginia, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Lhoist North America Of Virginia at a glance
Lhoist North America Of Virginia serves about 160 people through 11 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Giles County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA1071568; phone on file: 540-626-7163. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lhoist North America Of Virginia's lead record
That is down 2.8 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lhoist North America Of Virginia is 3.4 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.4 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. Lhoist North America Of Virginia's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Virginia and the 13th 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 Lhoist North America Of Virginia. 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 |
| Hoges Chapel | 1,114 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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) |
| Ram/Wayside Community Water System | 147 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Lhoist North America Of Virginia's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Lhoist North America Of Virginia 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.