Community Water System · PWS VA5037550
Phenix, Town Of
Operator location Phenix, Virginia - 52% of 90 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 206 served per SDWIS.
- 206
- People served (this PWS)
- 90
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 47
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Phenix, Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
52% of 90 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 52% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Phenix, Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (90), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (206; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 52% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 90
- Total EPA violations on record
- 52%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 206
- 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
- 128
- County
- Charlotte
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 47
- Monitoring Violations
- 32
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 27 | 2008 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 15 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 8 | 2018 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 8 | 2018 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 8 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 1998 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 5 | 2019 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1994 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Phenix, Town Of has 90 recorded EPA violations, 71% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 52% of this system's own violations are health-based (47 of 90), 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)
90 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 Phenix, Town Of
47 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for VA5037550.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
90 violations · 206 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 Phenix, Town Of
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