Community Water System · PWS VA5147280
Hampden-Sydney College
Operator location Hampden-Sydney, Virginia - 14% of 65 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,027 served per SDWIS.
- 1,027
- People served (this PWS)
- 65
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Hampden-Sydney College standing, mid SDWIS violation third
14% of 65 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #19,173 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Hampden-Sydney College lands in the middle third by violation volume (65), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,027 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #19,173 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #359 of 570
- Population · VA
- 65
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
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
- 129
- County
- Prince Edward
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 9
- Monitoring Violations
- 37
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 9 | 2013 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2009 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2006 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2005 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2016 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1977 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1977 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Hampden-Sydney College has 65 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 65), and it ranks #19,173 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
65 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 Hampden-Sydney College
9 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for VA5147280.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
65 violations · 1,027 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Hampden-Sydney College
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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