Rescue Waterworks, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.96 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.
Who runs the water here
Rescue Waterworks serves about 203 people through 81 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Isle Of Wight County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3093400; phone on file: 757-537-7389. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Rescue Waterworks's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (3.32 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rescue Waterworks is 3.32 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.96 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.32 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
How Rescue Waterworks 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. Rescue Waterworks's 2.96 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Virginia and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Isle Of Wight County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rescue Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Smithfield, Town Of | 8,089 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northern Development Service Dist. | 7,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| Windsor, Town Of | 2,400 | 3.77 ppb |
| Gatling Pointe | 1,470 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camptown | 855 | - |
| Clydes Dale Community | 600 | 4.58 ppb |
| Smithfield Heights/Sandy Mount Manor | 475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wrenns Mill Estates | 372 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carrsville | 313 | 3.39 ppb |
| Lawnes Point | 228 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rescue, 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 Rescue 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. 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.