Towles Landing, VA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.41 ppb (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 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.
Towles Landing at a glance
Towles Landing serves about 68 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Northumberland County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4133850. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0.87 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Towles Landing is 15.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.41 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.84 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.59 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.78 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.49 ppb |
| 2018 | 15.8 ppb over 15 |
How Towles Landing 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. Towles Landing's 0.41 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Virginia and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share Northumberland County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Towles Landing. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bay Quarter Shores | 726 | 1 ppb |
| Reedville, Town Of | 480 | 2.15 ppb |
| Sherwood Forest Shores | 421 | 0 (not detected) |
| Callao | 393 | 1.32 ppb |
| Indian Creek Estates | 318 | 0.74 ppb |
| Heathsville | 306 | 1.36 ppb |
| Chesapeake Bay Estates | 288 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mallard Bay Subdivision | 264 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lottsburg | 201 | 2.9 ppb |
| White Sand Harbour | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Wicomico Church, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wicomico Church, 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 Towles Landing 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.