Vinyl chloride in Drinking Water
6.2 violations per affected system (76,766 across 12,475) - dense load (> 5.8 violations per affected system).
EPA contaminant code: 2976
Vinyl chloride standing, high-volume SDWIS third
Vinyl chloride sits in the upper third of this extract by raw violation count (76,766), so the national record is thick enough that system-level lists below are a sample of a much larger compliance trail rather than a near-complete inventory. Load is concentrated: 6.2 violations per affected system (dense load (> 5.8 violations per affected system)), which usually means repeat findings on the same PWSIDs rather than one-off detections spread thin. Health-based share is only 0.3% - almost all of this analyte's trail is monitoring/reporting rather than MCL exceedance. Among 157 indexable contaminants, this page is #40 by violation volume. Utilities listed below are ranked by cumulative violation count for this analyte; pair that with population served to gauge household exposure scale.
Nationwide similar contaminants
Nearest by violation volume
Nearest by systems affected
Vinyl chloride: mixed health vs monitoring split
0.3% health-based · 99.7% monitoring/reporting across 76,766 records.
Most Affected Water Systems
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