Community Water System · PWSID VA6047062

Dove Hill Waterworks

Serves 60 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCulpeper, Virginia
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: DBP Stage 1. 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 2014: 4 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 1 missed or late test · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-11.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
1Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 63% 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

200520102014 · Notice or report: 120152020 · Missed or late test: 120202025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% treatment lapse · 125% missed or late test · 150% notice or report · 2

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.4 ppb
4.1 ppb
4 ppb
3.7 ppb
2.5 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-06-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-06-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorOpen
  3. 2020-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served60
Service connections42
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCulpeper
EPA ZIP on file22701

Areas served

  • Culpeper County

Reading this record

Dove Hill Waterworks is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 60 people in Culpeper, 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.