PENNINGTON GAP, TOWN OF

Water Quality Snapshot: PENNINGTON GAP, TOWN OF

PENNINGTON GAP, TOWN OF is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 1,781 residents in PENNINGTON GAP, Virginia (Lee County) through 972 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 115 total violations for this system , of which 6 (5%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 94 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, recorded in 36 violations (MR). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across Virginia, EPA tracks 2,821 public water systems serving 7,911,199 people, with 146,670 cumulative violations and 25,642 health-based violations on record. About 90% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 52 violations. PENNINGTON GAP, TOWN OF's 115 violations sit above the Virginia average. Statewide, 70 of 171 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (40.9%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.