Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS VA1071080
Cascades
Operator location Blacksburg, Virginia - 65% of 55 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 90 served per SDWIS.
- 90
- People served (this PWS)
- 55
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 36
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cascades standing, mid SDWIS violation third
65% of 55 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 65% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Cascades lands in the middle third by violation volume (55), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (90; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 65% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 55
- Total EPA violations on record
- 65%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 90
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Federal
- Connections
- 3
- County
- Giles
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 36
- Monitoring Violations
- 16
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 36 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2012 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1977 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cascades has 55 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 65% of this system's own violations are health-based (36 of 55), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
55 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Cascades
36 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for VA1071080.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
55 violations · 90 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Cascades
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Virginia compares on the same EPA violation measures. Virginia systems
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