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Powhatan Courthouse

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
3,005 people
Connections
325
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Rockville, VA
County
Powhatan
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

23139

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 2022.

Fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), nitrate and uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Jan. 4, 2012 to Aug. 23, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits3

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.2ppm

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.2 ppm, in 2013, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.21 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.0 ppb, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 2.9 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its three samples.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.84ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.84 ppb, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 1.7 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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

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 2021 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), nitrate and uranium come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Powhatan Courthouse’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 2022; EPA’s compliance samples are from Jan. 4, 2012 to Aug. 23, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Powhatan Courthouse’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 Powhatan Courthouse serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Addison-Evans Water Production & Laboratory Facility

    Midlothian, VA · about 17 miles

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

  • Matthews Well & Pump Inc.

    Glen Allen, VA · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Biotech Laboratory

    Chesterfield, VA · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (804) 520-4807

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 VA4145675. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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