CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH SYS: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH SYS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 32,326, over 11,147 connections.
CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH SYS's record against the rest of the country
2 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH SYS at the 30th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 9,091 of 12,903.
How CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH SYS compares within
's 244 covered systems average 11.2 health-based violations each; CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH SYS carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH SYS is from 2012-01-09 (health-based: 2012-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH 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: 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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH SYS'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 CITY OF CHESAPEAKE - WESTERN BRANCH SYS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 9,091th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.