Prices Fork/Merrimac, VA Water Quality
Prices Fork/Merrimac: EPA violation history, explained
Prices Fork/Merrimac has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 4,541, over 1,050 connections.
How this compares nationally
Prices Fork/Merrimac has 5 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,745th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 32th percentile nationally.
Against the VA average
Prices Fork/Merrimac's 1 health-based violations sit within the VA average of 4.3, across 213 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Prices Fork/Merrimac's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-12-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2005-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
Prices Fork/Merrimac'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 Prices Fork/Merrimac's record does not cover
Everything on this page is Prices Fork/Merrimac's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for Prices Fork/Merrimac - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.