Scots Landing, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 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.
About Scots Landing
Scots Landing serves about 183 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hanover County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4085744; phone on file: 804-643-2725. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.44 ppb from 2.04 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scots Landing is 2.04 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.04 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.5 ppb |
How Scots Landing 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. Scots Landing's 0.6 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Virginia and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Hanover County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Scots Landing. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hanover Suburban Water System | 57,931 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Meadows-Meadow Gate | 2,362 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mayfield Farms | 1,444 | 1.22 ppb |
| Avondale | 1,285 | 2.56 ppb |
| Cherrydale Subdivision | 928 | 1.36 ppb |
| Rural Point Central | 690 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hanover Farms | 471 | 0.56 ppb |
| Oak Hill Estates | 350 | 5 ppb |
| Walnut Grove No 1 | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holly Ridge No 1 | 279 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Richmond, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Richmond, 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 Scots Landing 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.