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Massanutten Village, VA

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.33 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.

About Massanutten Village

Massanutten Village serves about 5,472 people through 2,189 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rockingham County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2165525; phone on file: 540-564-3024. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Every lead result on file

That is down 1.2 ppb from 3.53 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Massanutten Village is 3.53 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20242.33 ppb
20233.53 ppb
20213.53 ppb
20212.13 ppb
20202.13 ppb
20180 (not detected)
20170 (not detected)

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. Massanutten Village's 2.33 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Virginia and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).

Nearby utilities

18 other systems share Rockingham County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Massanutten Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Three Springs Regional - Rcpw14,8341.28 ppb
Bridgewater, Town Of6,1772.74 ppb
Broadway, Town Of4,0153.74 ppb
Grottoes, Town Of3,3282.3 ppb
Timberville, Town Of2,9631.6 ppb
Elkton, Town Of2,5952.82 ppb
Dayton, Town Of1,7002.7 ppb
Food Processors Water Cooperative, Inc1,4300 (not detected)
R.R. Donnelley- Rcpw1,3329.58 ppb
Mount Crawford-Rcpw4813.84 ppb

Next steps for Harrisonburg, VA

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Harrisonburg, 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 Massanutten Village 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.