Is Leesburg, VA tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 5 utilities serving Leesburg has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: North Spring Behavioral Healthcare.
Town of Leesburg, 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 Leesburg’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Town of Leesburg
Virginia · serves 65,028 people · about 6,200 in Leesburg
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Loudoun Water - Central System
Virginia · serves 334,808 people · about 1,700 in Leesburg
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 0.5 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Selma Estates
Virginia · serves 1,540 people · about 110 in Leesburg
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Uranium at 0.092 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Beacon Hill
Virginia · serves 336 people · under 100 in Leesburg
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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North Spring Behavioral Healthcare
Virginia · serves 225 people · based in Leesburg
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 7.3 ppb, above the health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
Water testing near Leesburg
The 3 labs Virginia certifies closest to Leesburg, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Loudoun Water Laboratory
Ashburn, VA · about 8 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate
Legacy Environmental Laboratory, LLC
Sterling, VA · about 12 miles
Certified for bacteria
Fairfax Water
Herndon, VA · about 14 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
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 VirginiaWhich ZIP codes are in Leesburg: 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 Leesburg
Other towns in Loudoun County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Town of Leesburg’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