Community Water System · PWSID VA4036500

Mt Zion/Rustic Area

Serves 243 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentCharles City, Virginia
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On record since 1995: 54 violations. 12 treatment lapses · 40 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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
12Treatment lapse
40Missed or late test
2Notice 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

1995 · Treatment lapse: 119952000200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Treatment lapse: 52012 · Treatment lapse: 52012 · Treatment lapse: 52013 · Treatment lapse: 32013 · Treatment lapse: 32014 · Treatment lapse: 12014 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 1220202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
22% treatment lapse · 1274% missed or late test · 404% 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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.3 ppb
3.3 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.1 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2022-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2022-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2022-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2022-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2021-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2021-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 29 entries
  1. 2021-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2020-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2020-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2020-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2020-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2020-07-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2020-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2020-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2020-04-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2020-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-31Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  16. 2016-07-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  17. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2014-04-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  20. 2013-09-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  21. 2013-06-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  22. 2013-05-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  23. 2012-10-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  24. 2012-09-30Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  25. 2012-06-26Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  26. 2012-06-25Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  27. 2012-06-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  28. 2011-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  29. 1995-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance

System details

Population served243
Service connections109
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCharles City
EPA ZIP on file23030

Areas served

  • Charles City County

Reading this record

Mt Zion/Rustic Area is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 243 people in Charles City, 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.