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Barbour County, West Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WV001 · Barbour County 9 sys · 482 viol · #2020/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 10.4% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2020/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 89%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Barbour County ranks #2,020 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #32 of 55 counties in West Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Barbour County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 10.4% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,020 of 3,254 · #32 of 55 in West Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Barbour County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mercer · lowest Boone · highest Cabell · near Monongalia · near 92.3% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Philippi City Of 3,500 159 -
Chestnut Ridge Psd 2,744 22 -
Century Volga Psd 2,603 52 -
Belington Town Of 2,146 16 -
Central Barbour Psd 2,050 53 -
Junior Town Of 987 54 Clean
Central Barbour Psd - Belington 615 24 -
Philippi City of - Wellington Heights 256 86 -
Chestnut Ridge Psd - Berryburg 148 16 -

Compare beyond West Virginia

Mid-flagged peers for Barbour County

Cross-state counties nearest Barbour County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (482). 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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