Community Water System · PWS WV3301720
Salem Water Board
Operator location Salem, West Virginia - 34% of 510 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,630 served per SDWIS.
- 1,630
- People served (this PWS)
- 510
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 175
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Salem Water Board standing, high SDWIS violation third
34% of 510 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 34% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,206 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Salem Water Board sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (510), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,630 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 34% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,206 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #196 of 312
- Population · WV
- 510
- Total EPA violations on record
- 34%
- 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
- 766
- County
- Harrison
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 153
- Monitoring Violations
- 187
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 22
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 127 | 2024 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 115 | 2006 |
| Public Notice | Other | 82 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 34 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 26 | 2009 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2024 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 10 | 1996 |
| TTHM | MR | 10 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 2007 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 8 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2021 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2018 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 4 | 1995 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2023 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Chlordane | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Salem Water Board has 510 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 34% of this system's own violations are health-based (175 of 510), and it ranks #15,206 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)
510 Higher than most more violations than 95% 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 Salem Water Board
175 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WV3301720.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
510 violations · 1,630 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
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 Salem Water Board
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