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Community Water System · PWS VA2079590

Mountain Lakes Water Company

Operator location Stanardsville, Virginia - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 708 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,141 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

2,141
People served (this PWS)
708
EPA violations (this PWS)
22
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Mountain Lakes Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third

708 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,048 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Mountain Lakes Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (708), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,141 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,048 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#215 of 570
Population · VA
708
Total EPA violations on record
3%
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
Private
Connections
790
County
Greene
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
13
Monitoring Violations
656
Treatment Tech Violations
9

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 27 2014
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 20 2019
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 19 2019
Xylenes, Total MR 19 2019
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 19 2019
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 19 2019
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 19 2019
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 19 2019
Carbon tetrachloride MR 19 2019
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 19 2019
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 19 2019
Toluene MR 19 2019
Ethylbenzene MR 19 2019
Styrene MR 19 2019
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 19 2019
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 19 2019
Trichloroethylene MR 19 2019
Tetrachloroethylene MR 19 2019
CHLOROBENZENE MR 19 2019
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 19 2019
Vinyl chloride MR 19 2019
Benzene MR 19 2019
Chlorine MR 14 2023
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 13 2009
Arsenic MR 13 2020
Barium MR 13 2020
Cadmium MR 13 2020
Chromium MR 13 2020
Mercury MR 13 2020
Antimony, Total MR 13 2020

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Mountain Lakes Water Company has 708 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (22 of 708), and it ranks #13,048 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)

708 Higher than most more violations than 98% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Mountain Lakes Water Company

708 violations on record for VA2079590; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water

Nationwide peers

708 violations · 2,141 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.

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Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Mountain Lakes Water Company

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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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater