Community Water System · PWSID VA6033550

Town of Bowling Green

Serves 1,233 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBowling Green, Virginia
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On record since 2019: 19 violations. 14 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

14Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 92% 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

2005201020152019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 220202024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82024 · Over the limit: 82025 · Over the limit: 62025 · Over the limit: 62025 · Over the limit: 62025 · Over the limit: 62025 · Over the limit: 62025 · Over the limit: 62025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
74% over the limit · 1416% missed or late test · 311% notice or report · 2

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U2025-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 21.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.4×)2025-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 24.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.6×)2025-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 23.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.5×)2025-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 22.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.5×)2025-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 25.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.7×)2025-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 24.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.6×)2024-10-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 29.70 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (2.0×)2024-10-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 23.90 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.6×)2024-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 25.80 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.7×)2024-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 22.70 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.5×)2024-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 26.30 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.8×)2024-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 30.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (2.0×)2024-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 25.80 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.7×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.3 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 21.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 23.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 25.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 29.70 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 25.80 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 26.30 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 30.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2019-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,233
Service connections948
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBowling Green
EPA ZIP on file22427

Areas served

  • Caroline County

Reading this record

Town of Bowling Green is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,233 people in Bowling Green, 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.