Community Water System · PWS VA1169405
Gate City, Town Of
Operator location Gate City, Virginia - 24% of 123 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,034 served per SDWIS.
- 2,034
- People served (this PWS)
- 123
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 29
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Gate City, Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
24% of 123 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 24% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,416 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Gate City, Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (123), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,034 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 24% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,416 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #223 of 570
- Population · VA
- 123
- Total EPA violations on record
- 24%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1,216
- County
- Scott
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 20
- Monitoring Violations
- 93
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 9
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 52 | 2006 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 20 | 2009 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 6 | 2018 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 5 | 2005 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2006 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 1985 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 1985 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 1985 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 1985 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 1985 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 1985 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 1985 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 1985 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Gate City, Town Of has 123 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 24% of this system's own violations are health-based (29 of 123), and it ranks #13,416 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
123 Higher than most more violations than 77% 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 Gate City, Town Of
29 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for VA1169405.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
123 violations · 2,034 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Gate City, Town Of
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