Timber Ridge Subdivision, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Timber Ridge Subdivision serves about 110 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bedford County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5019800. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.7 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Timber Ridge Subdivision is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.5 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. Timber Ridge Subdivision's 5 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Virginia and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bedford County
16 other systems share Bedford County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Timber Ridge Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford Regional Water Authority (Brwa) | 38,794 | 1.6 ppb |
| Montvale Water, Inc. | 698 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain View Shores | 490 | 2.5 ppb |
| Stewartsville Consecutive | 340 | 2.3 ppb |
| Hardy Road Trailer Park, Section 2 | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Virginia Ridge | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ridgeview Village | 128 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chamblissburg Mhc | 75 | - |
| Woodhaven Nursing Home | 75 | 2.6 ppb |
| Valley Mills Crossing | 70 | 3.5 ppb |
Next steps for Bedford, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bedford, 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 Timber Ridge Subdivision 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.