Wedgewood Subdivision, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.59 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 Wedgewood Subdivision
Wedgewood Subdivision serves about 114 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in New Kent County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4127875; phone on file: 804-966-2615. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.59 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wedgewood Subdivision is 2.59 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.59 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 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. Wedgewood Subdivision's 2.59 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Virginia and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share New Kent County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wedgewood Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Central Water System | 7,864 | 3.52 ppb |
| New Kent Courthouse | 3,187 | 2.33 ppb |
| Bottoms Bridge | 2,510 | 2.14 ppb |
| Woodhaven Shores | 1,365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Parham Landing | 561 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Colonies | 548 | 2.57 ppb |
| Wood`S Edge | 488 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockahock Campgrounds, Inc | 375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Five Lakes No 1 | 360 | 1.39 ppb |
| Cumberland Hospital | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Providence Forge, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Providence Forge, 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 Wedgewood Subdivision 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.