Miller School, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Miller School serves about 250 people through 18 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Albemarle County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2003475; phone on file: 434-326-2115. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Miller School is 17.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 17.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 1.77 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.05 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.42 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 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. Miller School's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in Virginia and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Albemarle County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Miller School. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Acsa Urban Area | 77,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| Acsa Crozet | 12,415 | 0 (not detected) |
| Acsa Scottsville | 710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Keswick Estates | 504 | 8 ppb |
| Earlysville Forest | 488 | 0 (not detected) |
| Peacock Hill Subdivision | 475 | 1.35 ppb |
| Acsa Red Hill | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woods Edge Subdivision | 110 | 0 (not detected) |
| Langford Subdivision | 97 | 6.11 ppb |
| Faith Mission Home | 95 | 1.14 ppb |
Next steps for Charlottesville, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Charlottesville, 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 Miller School 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.