Nottoway Gardens, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.85 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Nottoway Gardens at a glance
Nottoway Gardens serves about 200 people through 78 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Southampton County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3175520; phone on file: 888-429-1913. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 5.85 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nottoway Gardens is 5.85 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.85 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Nottoway Gardens 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. Nottoway Gardens's 5.85 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Virginia and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Southampton County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nottoway Gardens. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Correctional Center | 1,768 | 3.04 ppb |
| Boykins-Branchville System | 1,430 | 0 (not detected) |
| Courtland, Town Of | 1,284 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newsoms Town Of | 550 | 2.48 ppb |
| Southampton Meadows | 500 | 10.3 ppb |
| Sedley | 486 | 2.61 ppb |
| Town Of Ivor | 410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Scottswood | 390 | 15 ppb |
| White Tail Resort | 356 | 2.4 ppb |
| Edgehill | 230 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Suffolk, 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 Nottoway Gardens 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.