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Virginia Landing

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
975 people
Connections
170
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Quinby, VA
County
Accomack
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

23413

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2010 to 2026.

Arsenic and uranium: Virginia’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2021 to 2022.

Chromium (total), fluoride and nitrate: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Aug. 13, 2012 to July 15, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

0.8ppb

90th percentile, 2024 to 2026

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 0.8 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

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

11ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

2018: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 11 ppb, in 2012, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2018, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.12ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.12 ppm, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.18ppm

Highest sample; found in 2 of 9

2019, one sample: 0.13 ppm

The highest sample, in 2018, was 0.18 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.13 ppm.

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
  • Uranium

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.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic and uranium results here are Virginia’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2021 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Chromium (total), fluoride and nitrate come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Virginia Landing’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 2022; EPA’s compliance samples are from Aug. 13, 2012 to July 15, 2019.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Coastal Bioanalysts, Inc.

    Gloucester, VA · about 37 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (804) 694-8285

  • Universal Laboratories - Hampton

    Hampton, VA · about 42 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

    (757) 865-0880

  • Jennings-Thompson Laboratories, Inc.

    Virginia Beach, VA · about 43 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (757) 425-1498

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 VA3001600. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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