Sherwood Forest Shores, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
About Sherwood Forest Shores
Sherwood Forest Shores serves about 421 people through 170 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Northumberland County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4133800; phone on file: 804-446-9822. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sherwood Forest Shores is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Sherwood Forest Shores 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. Sherwood Forest Shores's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 28th percentile in Virginia and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share Northumberland County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sherwood Forest Shores. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bay Quarter Shores | 726 | 1 ppb |
| Reedville, Town Of | 480 | 2.15 ppb |
| Callao | 393 | 1.32 ppb |
| Indian Creek Estates | 318 | 0.74 ppb |
| Heathsville | 306 | 1.36 ppb |
| Chesapeake Bay Estates | 288 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mallard Bay Subdivision | 264 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lottsburg | 201 | 2.9 ppb |
| White Sand Harbour | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burgess | 160 | 1.32 ppb |
Next steps for Hopewell, VA
Look up your address in Sherwood Forest Shores'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 Sherwood Forest Shores 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.