Riverbay, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.61 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Riverbay serves about 28 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5067788; phone on file: 540-981-2777. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Riverbay's lead record
That is down 2.72 ppb from 4.33 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Riverbay is 17.6 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.61 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.33 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.44 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.11 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.58 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.06 ppb |
| 2017 | 17.6 ppb over 15 |
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. Riverbay's 1.61 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Virginia and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Franklin County
26 other systems share Franklin County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Riverbay. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mount, Town Of | 6,000 | 0.51 ppb |
| Westlake Area Public Water System | 3,525 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wvwa Ferrum Water System | 1,996 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Waters Edge | 949 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dillards Hill | 755 | 0 (not detected) |
| Park Place | 501 | 3.5 ppb |
| Boones Mill Town Of | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burnt Chimney Water System | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Franklin Acres | 200 | 2.93 ppb |
| Walnut Run | 196 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Roanoke, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Roanoke, 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 Riverbay 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.