EPA’s Revised Lead and Copper Rule

Virginia Beach Public Utilities is committed to protecting public health by providing clean, reliable drinking water to our customers.

In compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) revised Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR), every drinking water system in the country is required to publish an inventory of the public and private water service line materials in their service area.

The City of Virginia Beach has completed its inventory of the material of all public and private water service lines in its water distribution system. 

Virginia Beach’s water distribution has no lead, galvanized requiring replacement, or lead status unknown service lines, no known lead connectors, and no connectors of unknown material.

Virginia Beach Public Utilities’ efforts to inventory the city’s water service line materials included researching historical records of service line materials and plumbing code requirements at the time of the property’s construction, performing over 10,000 excavations on either side of the property’s water meter to visually verify the public and private service line materials, recording visual observations from City staff in the field, and using representative sampling to determine the service line material.