Tap water · VA
Virginia Beach Public Utilities
EPA system ID VA3810900 · serves about 437,994 people. Every US utility must publish an annual water quality report — here’s the official one (2025), and below it, our plain-English translation.
Read the official report →What Virginia Beach Public Utilities found in 2025
23 detected analytes from the utility’s own annual report, hand-normalized — nothing was near or over a federal health-based limit.
| Detected | Level | Limit | % of limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chloramine | 3 ppm | 4 ppm | 75% | Within limit |
| Halocetic Acids (HAA5) | 29 ppb | 60 ppb | 48% | Within limit |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) | 37 ppb | 80 ppb | 46% | Within limit |
| Total Dissolved Solids | 131 ppm | 500 ppm | 26% | Within limit |
| Sulfate | 53 ppm | 250 ppm | 21% | Within limit |
| Fluoride | 0.6 ppm | 4 ppm | 15% | Within limit |
| Copper (90th percentile) | 0.124 ppm | 1.3 ppm | 10% | Within limit |
| Chloride | 19 ppm | 250 ppm | 8% | Within limit |
| Lead (90th percentile) | 1 ppb | 15 ppb | 7% | Within limit |
| Iron | 0.02 ppm | 0.3 ppm | 7% | Within limit |
| Zinc | 0.22 ppm | 5 ppm | 4% | Within limit |
| Nitrate as Nitrogen | 0.2 ppm | 10 ppm | 2% | Within limit |
| Barium | 0.04 ppm | 2 ppm | 2% | Within limit |
| Total Organic Carbon | 57 % | — | — | No federal limit |
| Hardness | 56 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Alkalinity | 43 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Sodium | 28 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| pH | 7.7 pH | — | — | No federal limit |
| Silica | 6 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Boron | 0.13 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Ammonia | 0.1 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Aluminum | 0.05 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Nickel | 0.004 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
Levels and limits are as printed in the utility’s report (“limit” is the EPA MCL, action level, residual limit, or secondary guideline that applies to that row; “ND” = not detected). Utilities publish these reports annually — we re-check every covered utility each July, after the federal publication deadline. Detected doesn’t mean dangerous — most detections sit far below their limits. This is education, not medical advice.
Your tap, if it were a bottle
How Virginia Beach Public Utilities water stacks up against the bottled aisle
Same minerals, same units — the tap values below come from the utility’s report, placed next to the closest match in our bottled-water database.
| Mineral | Your tap | Closest bottled match |
|---|---|---|
| Total dissolved solids | 131 mg/L | Antipodes at 130 mg/L |
| Sodium | 28 mg/L | Buxton at 24 mg/L |
| Sulfate | 53 mg/L | Vichy Catalan at 48 mg/L |
| Chloride | 19 mg/L | Perrier at 20 mg/L |
Tap values are the headline levels from the utility’s annual report (often a highest or average figure); bottled values are label- or report-derived. A closest match is a numeric comparison, not an equivalence or an endorsement.
Zip codes covered
23451 · 23452 · 23453 · 23454 · 23455 · 23456 · 23462 · 23464
Boundary zips partially served by other systems are deliberately unlisted — check your exact zip.