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Arlington County, Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet VA013 · Arlington County 4 sys · 65 viol · #286/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 75.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 9.2% health
  • RANK-TOP #286/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 4 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Nottoway County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Arlington County ranks #286 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #6 of 95 counties in Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Arlington County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 75.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 9.2% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #286 of 3,254 · #6 of 95 in Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Arlington County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Arlington County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Prince Edward · lowest Nottoway · near Westmoreland · near Highland · highest 44.4% 75% 75% 76.9% 77.1% 77.5% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Arlington County 215,000 15 Detected
National Airport 28,055 6 Detected
Arlington County - Willston Area 1,352 44 -
Virginia Hospital Center 340 0 -

Compare beyond Virginia

Lower-flagged peers for Arlington County

Cross-state counties nearest Arlington County on flagged-system share (75.0%) and cumulative violation count (65). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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