Millers Square, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Millers Square at a glance
Millers Square serves about 60 people through 25 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Essex County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4057568; phone on file: 804-749-8868. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0.51 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Millers Square is 1.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0.51 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.6 ppb |
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. Millers Square's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Virginia and the 5th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Essex County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Millers Square. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tappahannock, Town Of | 2,375 | 4.33 ppb |
| Gwynnfield Subdivision | 410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Va American South Hill Banks | 183 | 1 ppb |
| Cottage Row | 120 | 3.4 ppb |
| Riverdale Subdivision | 95 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maryfield Sub. | 48 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverview Mobile Estates | 48 | 0 (not detected) |
| Daingerfield Subdivision | 43 | 0.62 ppb |
| Colemans Island | 30 | 4.62 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Millers Square's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Millers Square 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.