Meadows Mobile Home Estates, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.23 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. 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 Meadows Mobile Home Estates
Meadows Mobile Home Estates serves about 105 people through 43 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Middlesex County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4119527. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0.99 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meadows Mobile Home Estates is 3.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.23 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.99 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.3 ppb |
How Meadows Mobile Home Estates compares
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. Meadows Mobile Home Estates's 0.23 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Virginia and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Middlesex County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meadows Mobile Home Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Middlesex Water Authority | 1,678 | 2.4 ppb |
| Town Of Urbanna | 800 | 3.14 ppb |
| Bush Park Mobile Home Park | 400 | 0.28 ppb |
| Town Of Saluda | 323 | 0.74 ppb |
| Coves At Wilton Creek | 206 | 1.33 ppb |
| Dockside Health & Rehab Center | 150 | 4.34 ppb |
| Cedar Pointe | 138 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lucys Cove | 70 | 1.76 ppb |
| Kilmers Point | 66 | 0 (not detected) |
| Urbanna Harbour, Llc | 58 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Montross, 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 Meadows Mobile Home Estates 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.