Community Water System · PWS VA4133640
Northumberland Plantation
Operator location Heathsville, Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 100 people served; 60 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 100
- People served (this PWS)
- 60
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Northumberland Plantation standing, mid SDWIS violation third
100 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Northumberland Plantation lands in the middle third by violation volume (60), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (100; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 60
- Total EPA violations on record
- 22%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 100
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 48
- County
- Northumberland
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 10
- Monitoring Violations
- 30
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 19 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 10 | 1993 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2016 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2019 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 3 | 2003 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| TTHM | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 1 | 2023 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Northumberland Plantation has 60 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 60), 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)
60 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 Northumberland Plantation
EPA SDWIS lists 100 people served and 48 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
60 violations · 100 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 Northumberland Plantation
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