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Tazewell County, Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet VA185 · Tazewell County 22 sys · 780 viol · #1282/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-LOW · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 68.2% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 4.5% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1282/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +5.7 pp
  • PFAS-LOW 16.7% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 77%
  • SYS-SMALL 22 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Washington County ( -5.7 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Tazewell County ranks #1,282 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #24 of 95 counties in Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Tazewell County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 68.2% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 4.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 16.7% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,282 of 3,254 · #24 of 95 in Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Tazewell County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Prince Edward · lowest Amelia · near Arlington · near Highland · highest 44.4% 62.5% 62.5% 68.2% 75% 75% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Bluefield, Town Of 5,811 24 Clean
Tazewell, Town Of 5,007 73 Clean
Richlands, Town Of 4,564 51 Clean
Baptist Valley 3,857 0 Clean
Claypool Hill Tazewell Co Psa 3,322 7 Detected
Eastern Tazewell County 2,952 180 Clean
Tcpsa - Raven/Doran 2,644 80 -
Cedar Bluff, Town Of 1,400 18 -
Falls Mills - Tcpsa 870 152 -
Tcpsa - Gratton 707 0 -
Tcpsa - Jewell Ridge 605 30 -
Bluefield Valley 428 0 -
Tcpsa - Fort Witten 173 0 -
Tcpsa - Big Creek/Coaldan 158 0 -
Camp Evangel 130 21 -
Barkay Estates 85 38 -
Cuz`s Cabins & Restaurant 82 2 -
Porter Farm Subd Water Assoc 82 93 -
Middle Creek - Tcpsa 50 4 -
Tcpsa - Daw Road 43 0 -
Tazewell Motel 40 7 -
Greater Tazewell WTP 0 0 -

Compare beyond Virginia

Lower-flagged peers for Tazewell County

Cross-state counties nearest Tazewell County on flagged-system share (68.2%) and cumulative violation count (780). 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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