Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan, 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.
Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan at a glance
Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan serves about 158 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small 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: VA1185754; phone on file: 276-385-1977. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.51 ppb from 3.51 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 3.51 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.66 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
How Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan 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. Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Virginia and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Tazewell County
17 other systems share Tazewell County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan. 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) |
| Tazewell, Town Of | 5,007 | 6.27 ppb |
| 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) |
Next steps for North Tazewell, VA
Look up your address in Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan'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 Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.