Lively, Community Of, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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
Lively, Community Of serves about 398 people through 159 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lancaster County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4103800; phone on file: 804-749-8868. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1.14 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lively, Community Of is 1.59 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.14 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.59 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. Lively, Community Of's 1.5 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Virginia and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lancaster County
26 other systems share Lancaster County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lively, Community Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kilmarnock, Town Of | 1,500 | 6.1 ppb |
| Irvington Community Of | 1,056 | 2.02 ppb |
| White Stone | 825 | 0 (not detected) |
| Weems | 678 | 1.98 ppb |
| Rappahannock Westminster Canterbury | 461 | 1.24 ppb |
| Corrotoman By The Bay | 358 | 2 ppb |
| Foxwells | 218 | 0.82 ppb |
| Heritage Point | 187 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lancaster Courthouse | 125 | 1 ppb |
| Tartan | 123 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Rockville, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rockville, 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 Lively, Community 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.