Drinking water quality · 2024
· Verified
· PWSID VA3800805
What's in Suffolk, VA tap water
1 contaminant in Suffolk, VA's water sat at or above a federal limit, led by Chloramine at 1.2x the limit.
- !1 contaminant at or above a federal limit — worst is Chloramine at 1.2x
- !1 contaminant within 20% of a limit
- !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.
- −15 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −4 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
- Chloramine1.2× the federal limit0.03–4.7 mg/L · limit 4 mg/L
Holds disinfection further into the pipe network, but is regulated under the same residual-disinfectant cap as chlorine.
higher than 95% of U.S. systems
- TTHM84% of the federal limit67 ug/L · limit 80 ug/L
Long-term exposure above the federal limit is linked to liver, kidney, and central-nervous-system effects and increased cancer risk.
higher than 85% of U.S. systems
+23 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| HAA5 | 39 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Fluoride | 0.79–1.71 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Turbidity | 0.359 NTU | 1 NTU |
| Combined Radium | 0.73–1.67 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Copper | 0.003–0.39 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Barium | 0.01 mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Chloride | 12.3 mg/L | — |
| Sulfate | 11 mg/L | — |
| Lead | Not detected ug/L | 15 ug/L |
| Lithium | Not detected ug/L | — |
| Sodium | 50–78 mg/L | — |
| Zinc | 0.37 mg/L | — |
| Escherichia coli (E. coli) | 0 | — |
| Hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid | Not detected ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| Perfluorobutanesulfonic acid | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid | Not detected ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| Perfluorononanoic acid | Not detected ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| PFOA | Not detected ng/L | 4 ng/L |
| PFOS | Not detected ng/L | 4 ng/L |
| Hardness | 14.9 mg/L | — |
| pH | 7.57 | — |
| TOC | 1.08 | — |
| Total Dissolved Solids | 120 mg/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
16 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Suffolk, 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
Suffolk, VA's drinking water comes from surface water, drawn from 8 sources.
Source
- CRUMPS MILL POND · 2
- REIDS FERRY WELL
- EDR PRODUCTION WELL
- FLUORIDE WELL
- + 3 more
Treatment
- SUFFOLK WTP
Distribution
Also buys water from PORTSMOUTH, CITY OF.
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.