City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys, VA Water Quality
What's in City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys's water?
City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 165,240 people through 56,976 service connections.
How this compares nationally
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys ranks 5,054th by violation burden (61th percentile) - 18 violations total, 3 health-based.
Against the VA average
City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys's 3 health-based violations sit within the VA average of 4.3, across 213 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys's most recent violation on record is dated 2003-01-08, with the most recent health-based one dated 2003-01-08. Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Fluoride
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 City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys's record does not cover
City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys'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. Between the utility's meter and City of Chesapeake - Northwest River Sys's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,054th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.