Sherwood Estates, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.57 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Sherwood Estates
Sherwood Estates serves about 107 people through 41 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 New Kent County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4127800; phone on file: 804-966-9625. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sherwood Estates's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (2.92 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sherwood Estates is 15.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.57 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.92 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.64 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.31 ppb |
| 2020 | 14.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 15.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 8 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Sherwood Estates's 3.57 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Virginia and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share New Kent County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sherwood Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Central Water System | 7,864 | 3.52 ppb |
| New Kent Courthouse | 3,187 | 2.33 ppb |
| Bottoms Bridge | 2,510 | 2.14 ppb |
| Woodhaven Shores | 1,365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Parham Landing | 561 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Colonies | 548 | 2.57 ppb |
| Wood`S Edge | 488 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockahock Campgrounds, Inc | 375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Five Lakes No 1 | 360 | 1.39 ppb |
| Cumberland Hospital | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Kent, 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 Sherwood Estates 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.