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Berkley Beach - Ebb Tide Beach

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
892 people
Connections
446
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Hopewell, VA
County
Westmoreland
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

22443

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and CDC’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Arsenic: Virginia’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2021 to 2023.

Fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from April 24, 2012 to Aug. 14, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits4

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.9ppm

Highest yearly average, 2014 to 2017

2017 average: 1.8 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.9 ppm, in 2014, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 2.2 ppm. In 2017, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 1.8 ppm.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

17.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019, one sample: 10.6 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 17.7 ppb, in 2016, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 18.7 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, its one sample was 10.6 ppb.

What handles it

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

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.0ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 24

2019: not found

The highest sample, in 2017, was 2.0 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its three samples.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

5.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019, one sample: 1.8 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.0 ppb, in 2015, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.8 ppb.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic results here are Virginia’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2021 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Berkley Beach - Ebb Tide Beach’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 2021 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from April 24, 2012 to Aug. 14, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Berkley Beach - Ebb Tide Beach’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 Berkley Beach - Ebb Tide Beach serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Mid-Atlantic Laboratories, Inc.

    Port Royal, VA · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (804) 742-5577

  • Spotsylvania County Laboratory Services

    Fredericksburg, VA · about 25 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

  • H2O Quality Laboratory a Division of Prince William Water

    Woodbridge, VA · about 35 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (703) 335-7976

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 VA4193120. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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