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Town of Dendron

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
360 people
Connections
155
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Surry, VA
County
Surry
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

23839

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, 2023.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Feb. 15, 2012 to Sept. 23, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

8.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 8.3 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”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.23ppm

Highest yearly average, 2014 to 2017

2017: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.23 ppm, in 2014, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2017, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.2 ppb, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.06ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 8

2019: not found

The highest sample, in 2016, was 0.06 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)”
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. 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 2023 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Town of Dendron’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 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Feb. 15, 2012 to Sept. 23, 2019.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Cornwell Engineering Group Laboratory

    Newport News, VA · about 22 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals, disinfection byproducts

    (757) 873-1216

  • James R. Reed & Associates

    Newport News, VA · about 22 miles

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

    (757) 873-4703

  • Marine Chemist Service, Inc.

    Newport News, VA · about 22 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals

    (757) 873-0933

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 VA3181400. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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