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Food Processors Water Cooperative, Inc

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
1,430 people
Connections
25
Water source
Surface water
Based in
Timberville, VA
County
Rockingham
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

22853

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Haloacetic acids (HAA5), above the legal limit. 1 health-based violation 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.

Haloacetic acids (HAA5): EPA’s violation records from 2020 on, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, chromium (total) and fluoride: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Jan. 10, 2012 to Nov. 5, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the legal limit1

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the legal limit

63ppb

Limit violation, 2024

EPA recorded a violation of the legal limit for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility in 2024. The highest measured level, for July 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 2024, was an average of 63 ppb, above EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 53.3 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

59.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2019

2019 average: 55.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 59.5 ppb, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 130 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, its four samples averaged 55.3 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility from 2012 to 2019.

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

2.3ppm

Highest sample; found in 8 of 8

2019, one sample: 2.3 ppm

The highest sample, in 2019, was 2.3 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 2.3 ppm.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Lead

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)The running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 202463 UG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record.

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. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, chromium (total) and fluoride come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Food Processors Water Cooperative, Inc’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 Jan. 10, 2012 to Nov. 5, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Food Processors Water Cooperative, Inc’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 Food Processors Water Cooperative, Inc serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Inboden Environmental Services, Inc.

    Mount Jackson, VA · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (540) 477-3300

  • VDACS RAHL Harrisonburg

    Harrisonburg, VA · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Augusta County Service Authority Fishersville Regional Laboratory

    Staunton, VA · about 40 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (540) 245-5150

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 VA2165300. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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