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Appomattox Water System

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,761 people
Connections
1,059
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
Appomattox, VA
County
Appomattox
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

24522

The short answer

1 result is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the limit’s level, no violation. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Arsenic: Virginia’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2022 to 2023.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Sept. 29, 2012 to Nov. 18, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the limit’s level, no violation

81ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2019

2019 average: 66.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 81 ppb, in 2012, above EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 101 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, its four samples averaged 66.5 ppb. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility from 2012 to 2019. Results like these with no violation often include water sampled before treatment or blending; the utility’s annual report says what reaches the tap.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits1

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

36.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2019

2019 average: 26.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 36.8 ppb, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 55 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, its four samples averaged 26.5 ppb.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Lead

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

    Other certifiers’ wording: VOC Reduction

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic results here are Virginia’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2022 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Appomattox Water System’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for Virginia cover 2022 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Sept. 29, 2012 to Nov. 18, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Appomattox Water System’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Virginia certifies.

The 3 labs Virginia certifies closest to the area Appomattox Water System serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • VDACS RAHL Lynchburg

    Lynchburg, VA · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • BWXT Lynchburg Technology Center

    Lynchburg, VA · about 15 miles

    Certified for radioactivity

    (434) 522-6803

  • Otter River Filter Plant

    Evington, VA · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (434) 821-8611

Virginia Household Water Quality Program, Virginia Cooperative Extension: Drinking water clinics in about 70 counties a year, run through local Extension offices: pick up a kit, collect the sample on the set day, and drop it off locally. Each kit tests well, spring or cistern water for 28 things, including bacteria, nitrate, lead and arsenic. $70 a kit, with funding to help if you need it. Virginia Household Water Quality Program.

All 145 certified labs for Virginia

Sources

PWSID VA5011050. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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