City of Chesapeake - Western Branch Sys, VA Water Quality
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. It serves 32,326 people through 11,147 service connections.
How this compares nationally
City of Chesapeake - Western Branch Sys has 2 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,091th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 30th percentile nationally.
Against the VA average
City of Chesapeake - Western Branch Sys'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
City of Chesapeake - Western Branch Sys's most recent violation on record is dated 2012-01-09, with the most recent health-based one dated 2012-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
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 City of Chesapeake - Western Branch Sys's record does not cover
This is what City of Chesapeake - Western Branch Sys reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 2 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.