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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS VA3131552

Northampton County Health Department

Operator location Exmore, Virginia - 31% of 52 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 55 served per SDWIS.

55
People served (this PWS)
52
EPA violations (this PWS)
16
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Northampton County Health Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third

31% of 52 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 31% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Northampton County Health Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (52), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (55; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 31% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

52
Total EPA violations on record
31%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
55
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.

System Details

System Type
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Northampton
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
16
Monitoring Violations
34
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 31 2008
Coliform (TCR) MCL 16 2015
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 1995
Revised Total Coliform Rule Other 2 2016
Nitrate MR 1 1979

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Northampton County Health Department has 52 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 42% carry more. 31% of this system's own violations are health-based (16 of 52), 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)

52 Around the middle fewer violations than 42% 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 Northampton County Health Department

16 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for VA3131552.

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

Nationwide peers

52 violations · 55 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Northampton County Health Department

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