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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS VA4119235

Big Oak Cafe

Operator location Urbanna, Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 50 people served; 30 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

50
People served (this PWS)
30
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Big Oak Cafe standing, mid SDWIS violation third

50 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Big Oak Cafe lands in the middle third by violation volume (30), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (50; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

30
Total EPA violations on record
13%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
50
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
Middlesex
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
19
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 15 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 4 2021
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 4 2022
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 4 2022
Public Notice Other 3 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Big Oak Cafe has 30 recorded EPA violations, 42% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 57% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 30), 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)

30 Lower than most fewer violations than 57% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Big Oak Cafe

EPA SDWIS lists 50 people served and 1 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

30 violations · 50 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Big Oak Cafe

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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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