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Kanawha County, West Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WV039 · Kanawha County 4 sys · 2,563 viol · #304/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 2.5% health
  • RANK-TOP #304/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 75%
  • SYS-TINY 4 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Kanawha County ranks #304 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #1 of 55 counties in West Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Kanawha 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 2.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #304 of 3,254 · #1 of 55 in West Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Kanawha County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mercer · lowest Boone · highest Wood · near Harrison · 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
Wvawc-Kanawha Valley Dist 209,283 86 Clean
St Albans Water 13,758 270 Clean
Reamer Hill Water Assoc 59 1,344 -
Kanawha Eagle Coal Companies 50 863 -

Compare beyond West Virginia

Mid-flagged peers for Kanawha County

Cross-state counties nearest Kanawha County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (2,563). 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).

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

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