Hcsa- Leigh Street Plant

Water Quality Snapshot: Hcsa- Leigh Street Plant

Hcsa- Leigh Street Plant is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 9,364 residents in South Boston, Virginia (Halifax County) through 4,168 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 308 total violations for this system , of which 45 (15%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 260 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2015.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is TTHM, recorded in 37 violations (MCL, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Virginia, EPA tracks 2,821 public water systems serving 7,911,199 people, with 146,670 cumulative violations and 25,642 health-based violations on record. About 90% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 52 violations. Statewide, 70 of 171 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (40.9%).

Hcsa- Leigh Street Plant's 308 violations sit above the Virginia average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.