GATE CITY, TOWN OF

Water Quality Snapshot: GATE CITY, TOWN OF

GATE CITY, TOWN OF is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 2,034 residents in GATE CITY, Virginia (Scott County) through 1,216 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 123 total violations for this system , of which 29 (24%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 93 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, recorded in 52 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. GATE CITY, TOWN OF's 123 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.