Community Water System · PWSID VA3175282

Darden`S Mill Estates

Serves 182 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSuffolk, Virginia
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2003: 54 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 39 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse1 open
39Missed or late test
12Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% of active water systems in Virginia. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Missed or late test: 12003 · Notice or report: 120052007 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Missed or late test: 220102013 · Treatment lapse: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Missed or late test: 282014 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 14% treatment lapse · 272% missed or late test · 3922% notice or report · 12

Across Virginia, 74% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.7 ppb
1.6 ppb
1 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2013-08-30Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2019-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2018-12-25Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2018-12-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2018-02-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2016-06-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2016-05-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-05-16Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  17. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  18. 2014-08-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2014-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2014-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2014-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2014-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2014-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2014-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 29 entries
  1. 2014-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2014-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2014-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2014-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2014-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2014-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2014-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2014-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2014-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2014-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2014-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2014-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2014-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2014-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2014-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2014-01-01TdsMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2014-01-01OdorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2014-01-01CorrosivityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01ColorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2014-01-01SulfateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2014-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2014-01-01ChlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2013-11-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2013-08-30Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  25. 2010-12-30E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  26. 2010-11-11E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  27. 2007-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  28. 2003-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  29. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served182
Service connections55
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySuffolk
EPA ZIP on file23432

Areas served

  • Southampton County

Reading this record

Darden`S Mill Estates is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 182 people in Suffolk, Virginia. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.