Middlebrook - Acsa, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Middlebrook - Acsa at a glance
Middlebrook - Acsa serves about 100 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Augusta County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2015450; phone on file: 540-245-5677. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Middlebrook - Acsa's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Middlebrook - Acsa is 1.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.9 ppb |
How Middlebrook - Acsa 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. Middlebrook - Acsa's 1 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Virginia and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Augusta County
18 other systems share Augusta County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Middlebrook - Acsa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South River Sanitary District | 26,083 | 0 (not detected) |
| Verona - Weyers Cave | 7,808 | 1 ppb |
| Dooms - Acsa | 2,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| Craigsville, Town Of | 2,340 | 3.87 ppb |
| Churchville - Acsa | 1,150 | 2 ppb |
| Blackburn - Acsa | 1,023 | 2 ppb |
| Country Estates Mobile Home Park | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harriston - Acsa | 288 | 2 ppb |
| Augusta Springs - Acsa | 273 | 1 ppb |
| Shenandoah Acres | 227 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Verona, 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 Middlebrook - Acsa 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.