Vienna has two water stories. Inside the Town of Vienna, the Town sells water it buys from Fairfax Water and the Washington Aqueduct, and the Health Department’s records show just 28 active wells in all of 22180, the ZIP nearly the whole town sits in. Step onto the county side and the count jumps: 519 in 22181 and 471 in 22182. Those are permit records, so some are irrigation wells or lots that later tied into a main, but they bunch up right where the lots get big.
The street names tell you where. In 22181 the most records sit on Lawyers Road, Woodrow Street, Hunter Mill Road and Stryker Avenue, and around Hunters Crest Way and Hunter Station Road. In 22182 it’s Crowell Road and Beulah Road first, then Hunter Mill again and the Leesburg Pike side. About a third of the permits in each ZIP date to the 1960s, older than a lot of the subdivisions that filled in around them, so a well house here can share a road with neighbors who have never seen a pressure tank.
That changes the call. A neighbor on Town water phones about a leak at the meter; you phone about a pump that won’t quit. If you just bought on the county side and the listing said public water, go look before you trust it. A tall tank with a gauge and a switch on the pipe beside it settles the question. And if your street gets Town water from outside the line, as about a third of the Town’s connections do, the pump isn’t your problem at all.
In October 2026 a member’s yearly plumbing inspection in 22181 found a well pressure tank 14 years old, with the gauge on its tee kit waterlogged. That’s about twice the five to seven years Washington State’s health department gives a bladder tank on average. We laid out the two ways forward: a new pump safety switch and tee kit on the old tank, or a midsize tank along with them. When a tank has outlived its average by that much, the second one is what we’d pick for our own basement.