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Ritchie County, West Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WV085 · Ritchie County 5 sys · 630 viol · #2845/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 20.3% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2845/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 5 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, Ritchie County ranks #2,845 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #49 of 55 counties in West Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Ritchie 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 20.3% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #2,845 of 3,254 · #49 of 55 in West Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Ritchie County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Ritchie 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
Harrisville 2,347 134 -
Pennsboro 1,254 104 Detected
Ellenboro Psd 456 109 -
Cairo Water Department 339 210 -
Hughes River Water 1 73 -

Compare beyond West Virginia

Mid-flagged peers for Ritchie County

Cross-state counties nearest Ritchie County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (630). 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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