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Whaleyville Water Wks

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
545 people
Connections
218
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Suffolk City, VA
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

23438

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

Arsenic: Virginia’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2023.

Uranium, fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total) and nitrate: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from March 7, 2012 to July 15, 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

0.45ppb

Highest yearly average, 2017

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.45 ppb, in 2017: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 0.89 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.7ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2019

2019 average: 2.3 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.7 ppm, in 2012, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 3.1 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 2.3 ppm.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

5.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019, one sample: 4.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.0 ppb, in 2016, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2019, the latest year on file, its one sample was 4.0 ppb.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.1 ppb, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Nitrate

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 2023 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium, fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total) and nitrate come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Whaleyville Water Wks’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 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from March 7, 2012 to July 15, 2019.

Testing your own tap

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

  • NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic Environmental Laboratory

    Norfolk, VA · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (757) 341-0473

  • Cornwell Engineering Group Laboratory

    Newport News, VA · about 35 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals, disinfection byproducts

    (757) 873-1216

  • James R. Reed & Associates

    Newport News, VA · about 35 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (757) 873-4703

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 VA3800880. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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