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Town of Brookneal

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
1,500 people
Connections
515
Water source
Surface water
Based in
Brookneal, VA
County
Campbell
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

24528

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the legal limit. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2002 to 2023.

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

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Feb. 27, 2012 to Nov. 26, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the legal limit1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the legal limit

91.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2019

2019 average: 52.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 91.3 ppb, in 2014, above EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 132 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, its four samples averaged 52.7 ppb. EPA recorded violations for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

What handles it

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

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

2.6ppb

90th percentile, 2021 to 2023

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 2.6 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

52.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2019

2019 average: 33.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 52.1 ppb, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 76 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, its four samples averaged 33.7 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility from 2012 to 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.76ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2019

2019: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.76 ppm, in 2017, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.26ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 8

2019: not found

The highest sample, in 2017, was 0.26 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)”
2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)

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

    Claims: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: VOC Reduction

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), Lead

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 10 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 2021 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Town of Brookneal’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 Feb. 27, 2012 to Nov. 26, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Town of Brookneal’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 Town of Brookneal 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 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • BWXT Lynchburg Technology Center

    Lynchburg, VA · about 22 miles

    Certified for radioactivity

    (434) 522-6803

  • Otter River Filter Plant

    Evington, VA · about 23 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 VA5031175. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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