What's in BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA)'s water?
BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA) has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 38,794 people through 14,615 service connections.
BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA)'s record against the rest of the country
BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA) has 3 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,607th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 57th percentile nationally.
How BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA) compares within VA
Among the 186 VA systems in this dataset, the average is 4.2 health-based violations - BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA)'s 3 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA) is from 2019-01-04 (health-based: 2019-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA)'s flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA)'s own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and BEDFORD REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY (BRWA)'s customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,607th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.