Is Colonial Heights, VA tap water safe?
The short answer
None of the 4 utilities serving Colonial Heights has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records.
Chesterfield Co Central Water System, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and CDC’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Colonial Heights’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Chesterfield Co Central Water System
Virginia · serves 389,897 people · about 2,300 in Colonial Heights
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Colonial Heights
Virginia · serves 18,273 people · about 2,200 in Colonial Heights
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Petersburg
Virginia · serves 33,394 people · about 760 in Colonial Heights
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.4 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Puddledock Road
Virginia · serves 9,271 people · about 140 in Colonial Heights
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Colonial Heights
The 3 labs Virginia certifies closest to Colonial Heights, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Environmental Hazards Services, L L C
Richmond, VA · about 8 miles
Certified for lead and copper, metals
Onterris Laboratories, LLC
Richmond, VA · about 8 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity
Henrico County D.P.U. Central Environmental Laboratory
Henrico, VA · about 12 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 VirginiaZIP codes in Colonial Heights
Which ZIP codes are in Colonial Heights: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: DCLS, drinking water laboratories with certification detail; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.
Near Colonial Heights
Other towns in Chesterfield County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Chesterfield Co Central Water System’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water