Is GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 10,754 people get their water from it, across 5,249 connections.
GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM ranks 5,432th by violation burden (58th percentile) - 7 violations total, 3 health-baseds.
Against the VA average
VA's 186 covered systems average 4.2 health-based violations each; GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM carries 3, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's most recent violation on record is dated 2017-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2017-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM'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: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's record does not cover
This is what GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM 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. Between the utility's meter and GLOUCESTER COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,432th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.