New Kent Courthouse, VA Water Quality
What's in New Kent Courthouse's water?
New Kent Courthouse has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 3,187, over 232 connections.
How this compares nationally
5 total violations and 4 health-based ones put New Kent Courthouse at the 65th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,579 of 12,903.
How New Kent Courthouse compares within VA
Among the 213 VA systems in this dataset, the average is 4.3 health-based violations - New Kent Courthouse's 4 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for New Kent Courthouse is from 2000-01-05 (health-based: 2000-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
New Kent Courthouse'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 New Kent Courthouse'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 New Kent Courthouse's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,579th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.