Mountain Lakes Water Company, VA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.1 ppb (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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Mountain Lakes Water Company serves about 2,304 people through 854 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Greene County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2079590; phone on file: 434-985-7504. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 10.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mountain Lakes Water Company is 10.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 10.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 6.54 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.4 ppb |
How Mountain Lakes Water Company 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 Lakes Water Company's 10.1 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Virginia and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share Greene County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mountain Lakes Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greene County Water & Sewer | 8,500 | 0.38 ppb |
| Blue Ridge School | 260 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rippin Run Subdivision | 40 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Stanardsville, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stanardsville, 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 Mountain Lakes Water Company 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.