Community Water System · PWSID VA5031175

Town of Brookneal

Serves 1,500 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentBrookneal, Virginia
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On record since 2007: 16 violations. 4 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 8 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-06-01.

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

4Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% 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

20052007 · Treatment lapse: 120102013 · Over the limit: 12014 · Over the limit: 32014 · Over the limit: 32014 · Over the limit: 32014 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 46% treatment lapse · 150% missed or late test · 819% notice or report · 3

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2014-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0990 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2014-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0910 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2013-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)
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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3 ppb
2.6 ppb
1.2 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-06-01Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  8. 2019-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2017-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2014-12-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0950 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2014-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0990 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0910 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2013-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2007-08-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,500
Service connections515
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBrookneal
EPA ZIP on file24528

Areas served

  • Campbell County

Reading this record

Town of Brookneal is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,500 people in Brookneal, 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.