Swords Creek - Rcpsa, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Swords Creek - Rcpsa serves about 3,233 people through 1,054 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 Russell County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA1167900; phone on file: 276-385-8668. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Swords Creek - Rcpsa is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
How Swords Creek - Rcpsa 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. Swords Creek - Rcpsa's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 42nd percentile in Virginia and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Russell County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Swords Creek - Rcpsa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Castlewood - Rcpsa | 5,565 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lebanon, Town Of | 3,458 | 0 (not detected) |
| Honaker, Town Of | 2,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belfast - Rcpsa | 1,575 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hansonville - Rcpsa | 1,048 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Garden/Finney - Rcpsa | 375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cleveland, Town Of | 340 | 1.23 ppb |
| Wallace Manor | 223 | 2.55 ppb |
| Appalachian Detention Center | 140 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fincastle Estates - Rcpsa | 113 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Lebanon, VA
Look up your address in Swords Creek - Rcpsa'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 Swords Creek - Rcpsa 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.