The Waters Edge, 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.
About The Waters Edge
The Waters Edge serves about 949 people through 378 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Franklin County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5067961; phone on file: 540-283-2944. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 4.7 ppb from 4.7 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Waters Edge is 4.7 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.94 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.7 ppb |
How The Waters Edge 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. The Waters Edge's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 33rd percentile in Virginia and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Franklin County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Waters Edge. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mount, Town Of | 6,000 | 0.51 ppb |
| Westlake Area Public Water System | 3,525 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wvwa Ferrum Water System | 1,996 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dillards Hill | 755 | 0 (not detected) |
| Park Place | 501 | 3.5 ppb |
| Boones Mill Town Of | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burnt Chimney Water System | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Franklin Acres | 200 | 2.93 ppb |
| Walnut Run | 196 | 0 (not detected) |
| Teel Brooke Estates | 187 | 2.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in The Waters Edge'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 The Waters Edge whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1630 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.