Nelson County - Piney River, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.2 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. 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 Nelson County - Piney River
Nelson County - Piney River serves about 405 people through 162 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 surface water, in Nelson County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2125382; 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.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nelson County - Piney River is 1 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.85 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. Nelson County - Piney River's 0.2 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Virginia and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Nelson County
6 other systems share Nelson County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nelson County - Piney River. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ncsa - Wintergreen | 6,861 | 2.5 ppb |
| Ncsa - Lovingston | 2,493 | 1.2 ppb |
| Stoney Creek Village | 895 | 2.19 ppb |
| Ncsa - Schuyler | 480 | 0.79 ppb |
| Ncsa - Gladstone | 51 | 7.2 ppb |
| Rodes Farm | 40 | 1.06 ppb |
Your move
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 Nelson County - Piney River 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.