Ware Creek Manor - Jcsa, VA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Ware Creek Manor - Jcsa
Ware Creek Manor - Jcsa serves about 161 people through 64 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in James City County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA3095858; phone on file: 757-259-5453. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ware Creek Manor - Jcsa is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Virginia systems
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. Ware Creek Manor - Jcsa's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Virginia and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share James City County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ware Creek Manor - Jcsa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jcsa - Central System | 57,726 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wexford Hills - Jcsa | 360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greensprings Mobile Village | 181 | 1.9 ppb |
| Mobile Estates | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Retreat (Jcsa) | 139 | 5 ppb |
| Kings Village - Jcsa | 124 | 0 (not detected) |
| Racefield - Jcsa | 89 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenwood Acres-Jcsa | 82 | 0 (not detected) |
| Heaths Mobile Homes | 41 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brooks` Duplexes | 29 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Ware Creek Manor - Jcsa's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Ware Creek Manor - Jcsa 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.