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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS VA6059523

Great Falls Park

Operator location McClean, Virginia - 12% of 59 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 2,000 served per SDWIS.

2,000
People served (this PWS)
59
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Great Falls Park standing, mid SDWIS violation third

12% of 59 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,685 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Great Falls Park lands in the middle third by violation volume (59), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,000 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,685 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#231 of 570
Population · VA
59
Total EPA violations on record
12%
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Federal
Connections
3
County
Fairfax
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
7
Monitoring Violations
47
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 22 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 17 2016
Coliform (TCR) MCL 7 2015
Public Notice Other 4 2024
E. COLI MR 3 2015
Nitrate MR 3 1999
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 1 1977
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1977

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Great Falls Park has 59 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 59), and it ranks #13,685 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)

59 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% 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 Great Falls Park

7 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for VA6059523.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water

Nationwide peers

59 violations · 2,000 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Great Falls Park

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
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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