Weems, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.98 ppb (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. 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 Weems
Weems serves about 678 people through 234 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lancaster County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4103830; phone on file: 804-749-8868. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Weems is 1.98 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.98 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.23 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. Weems's 1.98 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Virginia and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lancaster County
26 other systems share Lancaster County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Weems. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kilmarnock, Town Of | 1,500 | 6.1 ppb |
| Irvington Community Of | 1,056 | 2.02 ppb |
| White Stone | 825 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rappahannock Westminster Canterbury | 461 | 1.24 ppb |
| Lively, Community Of | 398 | 1.5 ppb |
| Corrotoman By The Bay | 358 | 2 ppb |
| Foxwells | 218 | 0.82 ppb |
| Heritage Point | 187 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lancaster Courthouse | 125 | 1 ppb |
| Tartan | 123 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Rockville, VA
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 Weems 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.