The Colonies, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.57 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
The Colonies at a glance
The Colonies serves about 548 people through 210 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 groundwater, in New Kent County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4127115; phone on file: 804-966-9625. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
The Colonies's lead record
That is down 2.61 ppb from 5.18 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Colonies is 23.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.57 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.18 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.61 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.88 ppb |
| 2022 | 23.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 3.53 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.02 ppb |
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. The Colonies's 2.57 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Virginia and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share New Kent County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Colonies. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Central Water System | 7,864 | 3.52 ppb |
| New Kent Courthouse | 3,187 | 2.33 ppb |
| Bottoms Bridge | 2,510 | 2.14 ppb |
| Woodhaven Shores | 1,365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Parham Landing | 561 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wood`S Edge | 488 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockahock Campgrounds, Inc | 375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Five Lakes No 1 | 360 | 1.39 ppb |
| Cumberland Hospital | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookwood Manor | 230 | 1.53 ppb |
Next steps for New Kent, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Kent, 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 The Colonies 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.