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Southampton County, Virginia

36 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 13,086 people in Southampton County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

36
SDWIS water systems Larger third of counties
3,206
Total violations Upper third of counties
97.2%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Middle third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet VA175 · Southampton County 36 sys · 3,206 viol · #2139/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 97.2% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 26.3% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2139/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 36 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Page County (+ 0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Southampton County ranks #2,139 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #59 of 95 counties in Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Southampton County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 97.2% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% 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 #2,139 of 3,254 · #59 of 95 in Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Southampton County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Prince Edward · lowest Carroll · near Highland · highest 44.4% 96.2% 96.4% 96.7% 97.2% 97.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

Compare beyond Virginia

Mid-flagged peers for Southampton County

Cross-state counties nearest Southampton County on flagged-system share (97.2%) and cumulative violation count (3,206). 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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