Swords Creek - Rcpsa, VA Water Quality
Swords Creek - Rcpsa: EPA violation history, explained
Swords Creek - Rcpsa has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 3,233 people get their water from it, across 1,054 connections.
How this compares nationally
Swords Creek - Rcpsa has 6 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,614th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 33th percentile nationally.
How Swords Creek - Rcpsa compares within VA
Swords Creek - Rcpsa's 1 health-based violations sit within the VA average of 4.3, across 213 systems statewide. 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 Swords Creek - Rcpsa is from 2023-01-01 (health-based: 2016-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Swords Creek - Rcpsa'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: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what Swords Creek - Rcpsa 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 Swords Creek - Rcpsa's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,614th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.