Mountain Crest, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Mountain Crest at a glance
Mountain Crest serves about 114 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Botetourt County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2023450. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Mountain Crest's lead record
That is down 1.09 ppb from 1.09 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mountain Crest is 4.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.09 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.8 ppb |
How Mountain Crest 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. Mountain Crest's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Virginia and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Botetourt County
25 other systems share Botetourt County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mountain Crest. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain View | 2,773 | 2.27 ppb |
| Rainbow Forest | 1,665 | 1.74 ppb |
| Buchanan, Town Of | 1,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fincastle, Town Of | 952 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Oak Estates | 930 | 3.47 ppb |
| Ashley Plantation | 875 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakwood/Parkview | 630 | 1.13 ppb |
| Troutville, Town Of | 500 | 7.2 ppb |
| Brookfield | 415 | 0 (not detected) |
| Heatherstone/Botetourt Forest | 356 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Buchanan, VA
Look up your address in Mountain Crest'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 Mountain Crest whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2000 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.