Is STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES's water safe to drink?
STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 123,684, over 40,289 connections.
STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES's record against the rest of the country
STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES has 70 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,342th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.
How STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES compares within VA
VA's 186 covered systems average 4.2 health-based violations each; STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES is from 2016-01-03 (health-based: 2002-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES'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:
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
The most severe category on record is synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / vocs, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES'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 STAFFORD COUNTY UTILITIES - 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.