Whitehouse Farms, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.31 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 Whitehouse Farms
Whitehouse Farms serves about 165 people through 60 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 New Kent County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA4127885; phone on file: 804-966-9625. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.6 ppb from 3.91 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whitehouse Farms is 3.91 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.31 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.91 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.13 ppb |
| 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. Whitehouse Farms's 1.31 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Virginia and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share New Kent County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Whitehouse Farms. 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 New Kent, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Kent, 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 Whitehouse Farms 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.