Southampton Meadows, VA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.3 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Southampton Meadows
Southampton Meadows serves about 500 people through 219 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Southampton County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3175750. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Southampton Meadows's lead record
That is up 10.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Southampton Meadows is 10.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Southampton Meadows 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. Southampton Meadows's 10.3 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Virginia and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Southampton County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Southampton Meadows. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Correctional Center | 1,768 | 3.04 ppb |
| Boykins-Branchville System | 1,430 | 0 (not detected) |
| Courtland, Town Of | 1,284 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newsoms Town Of | 550 | 2.48 ppb |
| Sedley | 486 | 2.61 ppb |
| Town Of Ivor | 410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Scottswood | 390 | 15 ppb |
| White Tail Resort | 356 | 2.4 ppb |
| Edgehill | 230 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nottoway Gardens | 200 | 5.85 ppb |
Next steps for Franklin, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Franklin, 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 Southampton Meadows 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.