Tower Road, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.2 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
Tower Road at a glance
Tower Road serves about 260 people through 84 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 Carroll County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA1035745; phone on file: 276-730-3170. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Tower Road's lead record
That is up 3.27 ppb from 2.93 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tower Road is 6.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.93 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.5 ppb |
Against other Virginia systems
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. Tower Road's 6.2 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Virginia and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Carroll County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tower Road. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Carroll Regional Water System | 7,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hillsville, Town Of | 2,884 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cana Regional Water System | 1,496 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fancy Gap | 530 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chalet High, Inc | 340 | 13 ppb |
| I-77 Exit 1 | 325 | 0 (not detected) |
| Olde Mill Golf Course | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cascade Mountain Resort | 145 | 6.43 ppb |
| Laurel Meadows Home | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hillsville, 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 Tower Road 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.