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Virgin Mountain Estates Mhp, AZ

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 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 Virgin Mountain Estates Mhp

Virgin Mountain Estates Mhp serves about 100 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Mohave County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0408142; phone on file: 928-710-0180. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Virgin Mountain Estates Mhp's lead record

That is down 1.4 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Virgin Mountain Estates Mhp is 3.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20251.6 ppb
20233 ppb
20212 ppb
20183.7 ppb

How Virgin Mountain Estates Mhp compares

Of the 730 Arizona systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 58 have gone over at some point. Virgin Mountain Estates Mhp's 1.6 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Arizona and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

49 other systems share Mohave County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Virgin Mountain Estates Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Lake Havasu City Of54,6103.1 ppb
Kingman Municipal Water45,0000 (not detected)
Bullhead City Mohave36,3300 (not detected)
Bermuda Water Company Inc25,0005.6 ppb
Valley Pioneers Water Company Inc6,2631.5 ppb
North Mohave Valley5,19022 ppb
Epcor - Lake Havasu4,7120 (not detected)
Golden Shores Water Company3,9701.7 ppb
Golden Valley Improvement District3,9500 (not detected)
Epcor - Willow Valley/King Street3,5660 (not detected)

Next steps for Littlefield, AZ

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Littlefield, AZ 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 Virgin Mountain Estates Mhp 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.