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New Baltimore Regional, VA

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.73 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. 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.

New Baltimore Regional at a glance

New Baltimore Regional serves about 8,818 people through 3,201 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 groundwater, in Fauquier County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA6061318; phone on file: 540-349-2092. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.

Lead results over time

That is up 2.73 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Baltimore Regional is 2.73 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20242.73 ppb
20210 (not detected)
20180 (not detected)
20162 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. New Baltimore Regional's 2.73 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Virginia and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).

Other water systems in Fauquier County

20 other systems share Fauquier County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Baltimore Regional. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Warrenton, Town Of11,8010 (not detected)
Bealeton Regional4,2500 (not detected)
Vint Hill2,4490 (not detected)
Marshall Waterworks2,3630 (not detected)
Remington, Town Of1,5400 (not detected)
Meadows, The7330 (not detected)
Opal Regional6432.31 ppb
Plains, The5660 (not detected)
Bethel Academy Subdivision3461.33 ppb
Green Meadows Subdivision3400 (not detected)

Next steps for Warrenton, VA

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Warrenton, 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 New Baltimore Regional 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.