Nottoway Shores, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Nottoway Shores at a glance
Nottoway Shores serves about 70 people through 31 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: VA3175530; phone on file: 757-562-2800. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Nottoway Shores's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nottoway Shores is 1.18 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.18 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. Nottoway Shores's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Virginia and the 6th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Southampton County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nottoway Shores. 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) |
Next steps for Franklin, VA
Look up your address in Nottoway Shores's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Nottoway Shores 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.