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Virginia water hardness

2 Virginia systems with a hardness figure read from an official page, each on the retrieval date printed against it below. This is not a list of every utility in Virginia; it is the list of those whose published figure has been verified here.

Soft Soft 0–60

Moderately hard Moderate 61–120

Hard Hard 121–180

Very hard Very hard 181+

Norfolk, VA 48 mg/L 2.8 gpg Soft
Virginia Beach, VA 56 mg/L 3.3 gpg Soft

mg/L as calcium carbonate. Each classification band is drawn the same width, so the axis is not linear in mg/L.

Virginia systems on the USGS classification. Each row links to that system's published figure, report year and conversion. Grains per gallon are the utility's own figure where it published one, and our conversion at 17.1 mg/L per grain where it did not.

Norfolk, VA — City of Norfolk Department of Utilities 48 mg/L (2.8 gpg) Soft Published range 32–74 mg/L. City of Norfolk 2026 Water Quality Report (Consumer Confidence Report for 2025). Retrieved 2026-10-26.
Virginia Beach, VA — Virginia Beach Department of Public Utilities 56 mg/L (3.3 gpg) Soft Published range 48–74 mg/L. City of Virginia Beach 2026 Water Quality Report. Retrieved 2026-10-26.

If your Virginia system is not above

Only 2 Virginia systems have been transcribed here, so most Virginia readers will not find theirs. Find the water system that serves you walks through the free EPA search that names your system and the EPA lookup that finds its annual report, which is the document that carries a hardness figure for your water. There is no ZIP-code hardness figure on this site, and that page explains why a ZIP code cannot carry one honestly: a ZIP code is a postal boundary and a water system is a pipe network, and they do not line up.

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