Paris, 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.
About Paris
Paris serves about 100 people through 37 service connections, which makes it a very small 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: VA6061400; phone on file: 540-349-2092. 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 down 1.07 ppb from 1.07 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paris is 1.82 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.07 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.82 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. Paris's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in Virginia and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Fauquier County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Paris. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Warrenton, Town Of | 11,801 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Baltimore Regional | 8,818 | 2.73 ppb |
| Bealeton Regional | 4,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vint Hill | 2,449 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marshall Waterworks | 2,363 | 0 (not detected) |
| Remington, Town Of | 1,540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadows, The | 733 | 0 (not detected) |
| Opal Regional | 643 | 2.31 ppb |
| Plains, The | 566 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bethel Academy Subdivision | 346 | 1.33 ppb |
Next steps for Warrenton, VA
Look up your address in Paris'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 Paris 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.