Tazewell, Town Of, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.27 ppb (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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Tazewell, Town Of serves about 5,007 people through 2,003 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Tazewell County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA1185761; phone on file: 276-988-2501. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (7.23 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tazewell, Town Of is 41.1 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.27 ppb |
| 2022 | 7.23 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.76 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.93 ppb |
| 2019 | 41.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 31.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 19 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Tazewell, Town Of's 6.27 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Virginia and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Tazewell County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tazewell, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bluefield, Town Of | 5,811 | 0 (not detected) |
| Richlands, Town Of | 4,564 | 0 (not detected) |
| Baptist Valley | 3,857 | 0 (not detected) |
| Claypool Hill Tazewell Co Psa | 3,322 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern Tazewell County | 2,952 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tcpsa - Raven/Doran | 2,644 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Bluff, Town Of | 1,400 | 2.69 ppb |
| Falls Mills - Tcpsa | 870 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tcpsa - Gratton | 707 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tcpsa - Jewell Ridge | 605 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Tazewell, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tazewell, 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 Tazewell, Town Of 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.