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Sussex County, Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet VA183 · Sussex County 12 sys · 567 viol · #2420/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 24.2% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2420/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Sussex County ranks #2,420 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #70 of 95 counties in Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Sussex County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 91.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 24.2% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Sussex County . Population served ranks #2,420 of 3,254 · #70 of 95 in Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Sussex County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Prince Edward · lowest Sussex · this county Lancaster · near Highland · highest 44.4% 91.1% 91.7% 91.7% 92.1% 92.3% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Sussex County

Cross-state counties nearest Sussex County on flagged-system share (91.7%) and cumulative violation count (567). 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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