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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
300 people
Connections
35
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Laurel Fork, VA
County
Carroll
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

24053

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. 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.

Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, chromium (total) and fluoride: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Dec. 11, 2012 to Aug. 20, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.86ppb

Highest yearly average, 2014

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.86 ppb, in 2014: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.9 ppb, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

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

0.05ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 8

2019: not found

The highest sample, in 2012, was 0.05 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

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

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.”

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

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 8 monitoring or reporting violations: 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. Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, chromium (total) and fluoride come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Olde Mill Golf Course’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; EPA’s compliance samples are from Dec. 11, 2012 to Aug. 20, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Olde Mill Golf Course’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 Olde Mill Golf Course serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Southwest Soils and Water Testing

    Hillsville, VA · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (276) 733-5682

  • Cisco Labs of Martinsville Va

    Martinsville, VA · about 39 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (276) 638-2472

  • VDACS RAHL Wytheville

    Wytheville, VA · about 40 miles

    Certified for bacteria

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 VA1035573. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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