Bottoms Bridge, VA Water Quality
Bottoms Bridge: EPA violation history, explained
Bottoms Bridge has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,510, over 946 connections.
How this compares nationally
Bottoms Bridge has 1 violation on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,227th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 28th percentile nationally.
Against the VA average
Bottoms Bridge's 1 health-based violations sit within the VA average of 4.3, across 213 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
Bottoms Bridge's most recent violation on record is dated 1999-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1999-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
Bottoms Bridge'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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What Bottoms Bridge's record does not cover
Bottoms Bridge's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for Bottoms Bridge - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.