New Market, Town Of, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About New Market, Town Of
New Market, Town Of serves about 2,274 people through 990 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Shenandoah County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2171600; phone on file: 540-740-9576. 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 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Market, Town Of is 26 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 26 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How New Market, Town Of 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. New Market, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 40th percentile in Virginia and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Shenandoah County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Market, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Strasburg, Town Of | 7,410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodstock, Town Of | 5,955 | 3.64 ppb |
| Stoney Creek Sanitary District | 2,578 | 6.27 ppb |
| Edinburg, Town Of | 1,908 | 3.51 ppb |
| Mount Jackson, Town Of | 1,864 | 0 (not detected) |
| Toms Brook-Maurertown Sanitary District | 1,548 | 5.33 ppb |
| George`S Chicken, Llc | 948 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holler Subdivision | 145 | 1.6 ppb |
| Massanutten View Subdivision | 145 | 1.6 ppb |
| Lambert`S Mobile Villa | 90 | 12 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Market, 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 Market, Town Of 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.