Is VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER CO.'s water safe to drink?
VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER CO. has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 30,317, over 9,345 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER CO. has 30 violations on record in total, 9 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,145th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 83th percentile nationally.
How VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER CO. compares within VA
VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER CO.'s 9 health-based violations sit above the VA average of 4.2, across 186 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER CO. is from 2009-01-01 (health-based: 2008-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER CO.'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); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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
VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER CO.'s numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 9 health-based violations on file for VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER CO. - 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.