Woodroam Subdivision, VA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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.
Who runs the water here
Woodroam Subdivision serves about 80 people through 29 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. EPA system ID: VA5143940; phone on file: 434-432-7135. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Woodroam Subdivision's lead record
That is up 1.8 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodroam Subdivision is 6 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.2 ppb |
How Woodroam Subdivision 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. Woodroam Subdivision's 4 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Virginia and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Pittsylvania County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woodroam Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Hermon | 4,145 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chatham, Town Of | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gretna, Town Of | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rt 29 North | 1,906 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hurt, Town Of | 1,300 | 1.8 ppb |
| Route 58 West | 1,260 | 2.3 ppb |
| Ringgold Industrial Park | 448 | 4.8 ppb |
| Mount Cross Road | 227 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grit Road Water Supply | 210 | 0.7 ppb |
| Tightsqueeze Water Supply | 209 | 6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Chatham, 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 Woodroam Subdivision whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1800 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.