Community Water System · PWS VA3093111
Bethel Heights
Operator location Isle of Wight, Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 58 people served; 56 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 58
- People served (this PWS) Smaller third of systems
- 56
- EPA violations (this PWS) Middle third of systems
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS) Middle third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Bethel Heights standing, mid SDWIS violation third
58 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Bethel Heights lands in the middle third by violation volume (56), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (58; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 56
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 58
- 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.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 23
- County
- Isle of Wight
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 47
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluoride | MR | 5 | 2002 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Nickel | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 3 | 1981 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bethel Heights has 56 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 56), 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)
56 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
How many violations vs. how serious, among peer systems
Bethel Heights plotted against 29 peer public water systems (500+ people served), by total violation count (x) and the share of those violations that are health-based (y). The crosshair sits at this sample's own median on each axis. A high violation count does not automatically mean a serious record: most monitoring and reporting violations are minor, not health-based.
Violation volume vs. health-based share
Population served record for Bethel Heights
EPA SDWIS lists 58 people served and 23 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
56 violations · 58 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 Bethel Heights
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
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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