Woodhaven Nursing Home, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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 Woodhaven Nursing Home
Woodhaven Nursing Home serves about 75 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bedford County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5019924; phone on file: 540-947-2207. 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 (2.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodhaven Nursing Home is 5.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.6 ppb |
How Woodhaven Nursing Home compares
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. Woodhaven Nursing Home's 2.6 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Virginia and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Bedford County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woodhaven Nursing Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford Regional Water Authority (Brwa) | 38,794 | 1.6 ppb |
| Montvale Water, Inc. | 698 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain View Shores | 490 | 2.5 ppb |
| Stewartsville Consecutive | 340 | 2.3 ppb |
| Hardy Road Trailer Park, Section 2 | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Virginia Ridge | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ridgeview Village | 128 | 0 (not detected) |
| Timber Ridge Subdivision | 110 | 5 ppb |
| Chamblissburg Mhc | 75 | - |
| Valley Mills Crossing | 70 | 3.5 ppb |
Next steps for Montvale, VA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Montvale, 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 Woodhaven Nursing Home 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.