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Upshur County, West Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WV097 · Upshur County 8 sys · 698 viol · #1685/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.6% health
  • RANK-MID #1685/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 33.3% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 88%
  • SYS-TINY 8 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, Upshur County ranks #1,685 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #26 of 55 counties in West Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Upshur 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 5.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 33.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,685 of 3,254 · #26 of 55 in West Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Upshur County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Upshur 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
Buckhannon Water Board 8,098 42 Clean
Adrian P S D 5,327 52 Detected
Elkins Road Psd 3,112 35 Clean
Mount Hope Water Assoc 2,870 34 -
Hodgesville Psd Rt 20 2,161 110 -
Hodgesville Psd Lorentz System 376 42 -
Hodgesville Psd - Sauls Run 151 28 -
Hillbilly Grill 25 355 -

Compare beyond West Virginia

Mid-flagged peers for Upshur County

Cross-state counties nearest Upshur County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (698). 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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