Mountain View Shores, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Mountain View Shores
Mountain View Shores serves about 490 people through 210 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Bedford County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5019685; phone on file: 540-586-7679. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Mountain View Shores's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mountain View Shores is 3.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.4 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. Mountain View Shores's 2.5 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Virginia and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bedford County
16 other systems share Bedford County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mountain View Shores. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford Regional Water Authority (Brwa) | 38,794 | 1.6 ppb |
| Montvale Water, Inc. | 698 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stewartsville Consecutive | 340 | 2.3 ppb |
| Hardy Road Trailer Park, Section 2 | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Virginia Ridge | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ridgeview Village | 128 | 0 (not detected) |
| Timber Ridge Subdivision | 110 | 5 ppb |
| Chamblissburg Mhc | 75 | - |
| Woodhaven Nursing Home | 75 | 2.6 ppb |
| Valley Mills Crossing | 70 | 3.5 ppb |
Next steps for Bedford, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bedford, 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 View Shores whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1350 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.