Ncsa - Wintergreen, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Ncsa - Wintergreen at a glance
Ncsa - Wintergreen serves about 6,861 people through 2,417 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Nelson County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2125910; phone on file: 434-263-5341. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Ncsa - Wintergreen's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (2.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ncsa - Wintergreen is 40 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.77 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.77 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.77 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.83 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.83 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.83 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 13.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 40 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Ncsa - Wintergreen's 2.5 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Virginia and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Nelson County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Ncsa - Wintergreen. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ncsa - Lovingston | 2,493 | 1.2 ppb |
| Stoney Creek Village | 895 | 2.19 ppb |
| Ncsa - Schuyler | 480 | 0.79 ppb |
| Nelson County - Piney River | 405 | 0.2 ppb |
| Ncsa - Gladstone | 51 | 7.2 ppb |
| Rodes Farm | 40 | 1.06 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lovingston, 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 Ncsa - Wintergreen 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.