Dale City

Water Quality Snapshot: Dale City

Dale City is a private-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 72,062 residents in Hopewell, Virginia (Prince William County) through 20,895 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 3 total violations for this system , of which 0 (0%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed.

No specific contaminant violations have been recorded in EPA's detailed violation register for this system. Under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, 7 PFAS compounds were detected in samples collected from this system, with a maximum reported concentration of 21.9 ppt (parts per trillion). PFAS are persistent synthetic chemicals linked to health effects at very low exposure levels.

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%).

Dale City's 3 violations sit below 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.