Is Massanetta Springs, VA tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 3 utilities serving Massanetta Springs has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: Cedar Hill I.
City of Harrisonburg, 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 Massanetta Springs’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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City of Harrisonburg
Virginia · serves 61,000 people · about 4,200 in Massanetta Springs
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Three Springs Regional - Rcpw
Virginia · serves 14,834 people · about 180 in Massanetta Springs
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.3 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Cedar Hill I
Virginia · serves 400 people · under 100 in Massanetta Springs
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
Water testing near Massanetta Springs
The 3 labs Virginia certifies closest to Massanetta Springs, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
VDACS RAHL Harrisonburg
Harrisonburg, VA · about 7 miles
Certified for bacteria
Augusta County Service Authority Fishersville Regional Laboratory
Staunton, VA · about 23 miles
Certified for bacteria
Inboden Environmental Services, Inc.
Mount Jackson, VA · about 27 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate
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 Massanetta Springs: 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 Massanetta Springs
Towns nearby with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Harrisonburg’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