Montross, Town Of, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Montross, Town Of at a glance
Montross, Town Of serves about 1,163 people through 311 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4193680; phone on file: 804-493-9623. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Montross, Town Of is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (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. Montross, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 35th percentile in Virginia and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Westmoreland County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Montross, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Colonial Beach, Town Of | 3,875 | 0 (not detected) |
| Potomac Westmoreland Shores | 1,743 | 1 ppb |
| Cabin Point And Glebe Harbour | 1,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stratford Harbour | 1,230 | 2 ppb |
| Placid Bay Estates | 946 | 0 (not detected) |
| Berkley Beach - Ebb Tide Beach | 892 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westmoreland County Industrial Park | 802 | 5.88 ppb |
| Monroe Bay Estates | 475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kinsale, Town Of | 198 | 2.45 ppb |
| Bleak Hall | 143 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Montross, Town Of'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 Montross, Town Of 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.