Community Water System · PWS WV3300506
Follansbee Municipal
Operator location Follansbee, West Virginia - 7% of 55 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 3,145 served per SDWIS.
- 3,145
- People served (this PWS)
- 55
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Follansbee Municipal standing, mid SDWIS violation third
7% of 55 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 7% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,292 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Follansbee Municipal lands in the middle third by violation volume (55), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 3,145 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 7% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,292 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #106 of 312
- Population · WV
- 55
- Total EPA violations on record
- 7%
- 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
- 1,423
- County
- Brooke
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 43
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 1994 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 4 | 2019 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Follansbee Municipal has 55 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 55), and it ranks #10,292 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)
55 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Follansbee Municipal
4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WV3300506.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
55 violations · 3,145 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 Follansbee Municipal
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in West Virginia compares on the same EPA violation measures. West Virginia systems
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