Town Of Urbanna, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.14 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Town Of Urbanna at a glance
Town Of Urbanna serves about 800 people through 617 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 Middlesex County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4119800. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2.74 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Urbanna is 4.02 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.14 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.74 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.88 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.02 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
How Town Of Urbanna 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. Town Of Urbanna's 3.14 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Virginia and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Middlesex County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Town Of Urbanna. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Middlesex Water Authority | 1,678 | 2.4 ppb |
| Bush Park Mobile Home Park | 400 | 0.28 ppb |
| Town Of Saluda | 323 | 0.74 ppb |
| Coves At Wilton Creek | 206 | 1.33 ppb |
| Dockside Health & Rehab Center | 150 | 4.34 ppb |
| Cedar Pointe | 138 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadows Mobile Home Estates | 105 | 0.23 ppb |
| Lucys Cove | 70 | 1.76 ppb |
| Kilmers Point | 66 | 0 (not detected) |
| Urbanna Harbour, Llc | 58 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Urbanna, 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 Town Of Urbanna 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.