Puddledock Road, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Puddledock Road at a glance
Puddledock Road serves about 9,271 people through 3,009 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Prince George County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3149700; phone on file: 804-722-8706. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Puddledock Road's lead record
That is down 3.24 ppb from 3.24 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Puddledock Road is 3.24 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 3.24 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Puddledock Road's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 46th percentile in Virginia and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Prince George County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Puddledock Road. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ft Gregg-Adams (Ft Lee) | 28,580 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood Farms | 1,071 | 1.34 ppb |
| Rivers Edge Subdivision | 441 | 2.58 ppb |
| Cedarwood | 333 | 2.33 ppb |
| Bexley Park | 240 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clayton Whispering Winds Mhe | 122 | 1.04 ppb |
| Prince George Woods Estates | 60 | 4.21 ppb |
| Clayton Manning Mobile Home Estates | 35 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Prince George, VA
Look up your address in Puddledock Road'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 Puddledock Road 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.