Drinking water quality · 2023
· Verified
· PWSID VA3550051
What's in Chesapeake, VA tap water
1 contaminant in Chesapeake, VA's water sat at or above a federal limit, led by Chlorine Total at 1.1x the limit.
- !1 contaminant at or above a federal limit — worst is Chlorine Total at 1.1x
- !11 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 16 never appear in this report
- ✓No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −14 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −0 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −0 open health-based violations
- −0 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −0 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −13 core regulated contaminants never reported (11/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →What to worry about
- Chlorine Total1.1× the federal limit1.3–4.6 mg/L · limit 4 mg/L
higher than 95% of U.S. systems
+39 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
What this report doesn't tell you
16 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Chesapeake, VA's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record
Where your water comes from · EPA SDWIS
Chesapeake, VA's drinking water comes from ground water, drawn from 12 sources.
Source
- ASR WELL
- DEEP WELL NWR-1
- DEEP WELL NWR-2
- DEEP WELL NWR-3
- + 8 more
Treatment
- NORTHWEST RIVER WTP
- LAKE GASTON WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Distribution
Compliance history
Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.
- Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based2 violations on record · most recent Aug 2003resolved
- Treatment technique violationHealth-based1 violation on record · most recent Dec 2002resolved
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗