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Community Water System · PWS WV3300408

Burnsville Public Utility

Operator location Burnsville, West Virginia - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 192 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,126 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,126
People served (this PWS)
192
EPA violations (this PWS)
12
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Burnsville Public Utility standing, high SDWIS violation third

192 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,391 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Burnsville Public Utility sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (192), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,126 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,391 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#235 of 312
Population · WV
192
Total EPA violations on record
6%
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
Local
Connections
496
County
Braxton
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
8
Monitoring Violations
134
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Public Notice Other 21 2024
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 16 2019
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 16 2024
TTHM MR 10 2022
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 8 2022
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 8 2019
CARBON, TOTAL MR 8 2010
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 8 2008
Coliform (TCR) MR 7 2010
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2017
Chlorine MR 4 2017
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 4 2019
Nitrate MR 4 2022
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 3 2022
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2022
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 3 2022
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2022
Carbon tetrachloride MR 3 2022
Trichloroethylene MR 3 2022
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 3 2022
CHLOROBENZENE MR 3 2022
Benzene MR 3 2022
Ethylbenzene MR 3 2022
Styrene MR 3 2022
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 3 2022
Vinyl chloride MR 3 2022
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 3 2022
Xylenes, Total MR 3 2022
Tetrachloroethylene MR 3 2022
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2022

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Burnsville Public Utility has 192 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 192), and it ranks #18,391 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)

192 Higher than most more violations than 85% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Burnsville Public Utility

192 violations on record for WV3300408; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

192 violations · 1,126 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Burnsville Public Utility

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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