Trails End, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Trails End at a glance
Trails End serves about 495 people through 2,680 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Accomack County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3001140; phone on file: 757-824-3428. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Trails End's lead record
That is down 2.3 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Trails End is 4.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.9 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. Trails End's 0.5 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Virginia and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Accomack County
11 other systems share Accomack County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Trails End. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chincoteague, Town Of | 3,344 | 6.59 ppb |
| Captains Cove | 2,380 | 1.74 ppb |
| Nasa Wallops Flight Facility | 1,625 | 2.78 ppb |
| Onancock, Town Of | 1,525 | 4.98 ppb |
| Virginia Landing | 975 | 0.8 ppb |
| Parksley, Town Of | 804 | 9.5 ppb |
| Tangier, Town Of | 393 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rolling Acres Subdivision | 170 | 3.53 ppb |
| Accomack Manor | 155 | 0 (not detected) |
| Triangle Enterprises Mhp | 152 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Horntown, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Horntown, 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 Trails End 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.