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Community Water System · PWS WV3301024

Mount Hope Water

Operator location Mt. Hope, West Virginia - 29% of 66 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,567 served per SDWIS.

1,567
People served (this PWS)
66
EPA violations (this PWS)
19
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Mount Hope Water standing, mid SDWIS violation third

29% of 66 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 29% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,541 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Mount Hope Water lands in the middle third by violation volume (66), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,567 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 29% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,541 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#201 of 312
Population · WV
66
Total EPA violations on record
29%
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
674
County
Fayette
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
21
Treatment Tech Violations
19

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 15 2023
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 8 2025
Public Notice Other 5 2020
TTHM MR 4 2008
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 4 2016
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2019
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 4 2019
Nitrate MR 4 2017
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 3 2018
Carbon tetrachloride MR 1 2018
Selenium MR 1 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Mount Hope Water has 66 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 29% of this system's own violations are health-based (19 of 66), and it ranks #15,541 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)

66 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Mount Hope Water

19 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WV3301024.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

66 violations · 1,567 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Mount Hope Water

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