Community Water System · PWS VA5019400
Smith Mountain Lake WTP
Operator location Bedford, Virginia - 23% of 88 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 0 served per SDWIS.
- 0
- People served (this PWS)
- 88
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 20
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Smith Mountain Lake WTP standing, high SDWIS violation third
23% of 88 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 23% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Smith Mountain Lake WTP sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (88), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (0; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 23% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 88
- Total EPA violations on record
- 23%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 0
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Bedford
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 20
- Monitoring Violations
- 60
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 20 | 2016 |
| Nitrate | MR | 7 | 1999 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2004 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Styrene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Benzene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Toluene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2000 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Smith Mountain Lake WTP has 88 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 23% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 88), 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)
88 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% 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 Smith Mountain Lake WTP
20 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for VA5019400.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
88 violations · 0 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.
What to do with Smith Mountain Lake WTP
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