St. Brides Correctional Center, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.19 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.
Who runs the water here
St. Brides Correctional Center serves about 2,354 people through 25 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater. EPA system ID: VA3550750; phone on file: 434-767-5543. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (2.92 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St. Brides Correctional Center is 6.44 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.19 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.92 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.76 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.44 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 3.72 ppb |
How St. Brides Correctional Center 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. St. Brides Correctional Center's 3.19 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Virginia and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lawrenceville, 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 St. Brides Correctional Center whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.