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Wayside Acres Subdivision # 1

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
55 people
Connections
23
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Chatham, VA
County
Pittsylvania
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

24563

The short answer

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

What handles it

What was found

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 6.0 ppm, for the period ending July 1, 1993. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

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

Uranium, nitrate, fluoride and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Nov. 5, 2012 to Nov. 13, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.21ppb

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.21 ppb, in 2019: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.7ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 6

2019, one sample: 2.0 ppm

The highest sample, in 2012, was 2.7 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.0 ppm.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.11ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

2018, one sample: 0.079 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.11 ppm, in 2015, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2018, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.079 ppm.

What handles it

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead

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?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

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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 results here are Virginia’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2021 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium, nitrate, fluoride and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Wayside Acres Subdivision # 1’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; EPA’s compliance samples are from Nov. 5, 2012 to Nov. 13, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Wayside Acres Subdivision # 1’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 Wayside Acres Subdivision # 1 serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Otter River Filter Plant

    Evington, VA · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (434) 821-8611

  • Willoughby & Associates, Inc.

    Forest, VA · about 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (434) 534-9834

  • VDACS RAHL Lynchburg

    Lynchburg, VA · about 24 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 Virginia

Sources

PWSID VA5143880. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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