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Louisa County, Virginia

40 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 18,333 people in Louisa County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

40
SDWIS water systems Larger third of counties
2,117
Total violations Middle third of counties
90.0%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet VA109 · Louisa County 40 sys · 2,117 viol · #1850/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 26.3% health
  • RANK-MID #1850/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 93%
  • SYS-MID 40 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Louisa County ranks #1,850 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #43 of 95 counties in Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Louisa County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 26.3% is health-based share above the upper 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 #1,850 of 3,254 · #43 of 95 in Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Louisa County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Prince Edward · lowest Accomack · near Orange · near Highland · highest 44.4% 89.3% 89.8% 90% 90% 90.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

Compare beyond Virginia

Lower-flagged peers for Louisa County

Cross-state counties nearest Louisa County on flagged-system share (90.0%) and cumulative violation count (2,117). 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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