Stoney Creek Sanitary District, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.27 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
Stoney Creek Sanitary District serves about 2,578 people through 1,706 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Shenandoah County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA2171250; phone on file: 540-459-5513. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 4.03 ppb from 10.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stoney Creek Sanitary District is 10.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 6.27 ppb |
| 2020 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 5.75 ppb |
How Stoney Creek Sanitary District 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. Stoney Creek Sanitary District's 6.27 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Virginia and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Shenandoah County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Stoney Creek Sanitary District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Strasburg, Town Of | 7,410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodstock, Town Of | 5,955 | 3.64 ppb |
| New Market, Town Of | 2,274 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edinburg, Town Of | 1,908 | 3.51 ppb |
| Mount Jackson, Town Of | 1,864 | 0 (not detected) |
| Toms Brook-Maurertown Sanitary District | 1,548 | 5.33 ppb |
| George`S Chicken, Llc | 948 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holler Subdivision | 145 | 1.6 ppb |
| Massanutten View Subdivision | 145 | 1.6 ppb |
| Lambert`S Mobile Villa | 90 | 12 ppb |
Next steps for Woodstock, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Woodstock, 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 Stoney Creek Sanitary District 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.