Valley View, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.56 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. 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.
About Valley View
Valley View serves about 33 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Madison County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA6113500; phone on file: 804-749-8868. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Valley View's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley View is 2.54 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.56 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2.54 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.55 ppb |
How Valley View 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. Valley View's 0.56 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Virginia and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Madison County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley View. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Madison, Town Of | 784 | 3 ppb |
| Woodberry Forest School | 739 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hartland Institute | 150 | 2.03 ppb |
| Mountain View Nursing Home | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Achsah Acres | 75 | 2.28 ppb |
| Oak Park Subdivision | 60 | 1.92 ppb |
| Rolling Brook Mobile Home Park | 54 | 1.4 ppb |
| Happy Hills Subdivision | 35 | 3.65 ppb |
| Copeley Fields Subdivision | 25 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rockville, 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 Valley View whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1502 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.