Nininger Waterworks, VA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 31 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Nininger Waterworks
Nininger Waterworks serves about 62 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bedford County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5019605; phone on file: 517-388-0533. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 24 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nininger Waterworks is 31 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 7.4 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. Nininger Waterworks's 31 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Virginia and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Bedford County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nininger Waterworks. 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) |
| Mountain View Shores | 490 | 2.5 ppb |
| 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 |
Next steps for Vinton, VA
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Nininger Waterworks 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.