Community Water System · PWS WV3301912
Corporation of Harpers Ferry
Operator location Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 283 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,122 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,122
- People served (this PWS)
- 283
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Corporation of Harpers Ferry standing, high SDWIS violation third
283 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 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,105 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Corporation of Harpers Ferry sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (283), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,122 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,105 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #161 of 312
- Population · WV
- 283
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- 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
- 814
- County
- Jefferson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 228
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 11
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 30 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 12 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 9 | 2025 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 8 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 7 | 2025 |
| Barium | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Cadmium | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Fluoride | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Mercury | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Arsenic | MR | 6 | 2013 |
| Selenium | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Chromium | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Nickel | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 5 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2022 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2022 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 3 | 2018 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 2 | 2011 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Corporation of Harpers Ferry has 283 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 283), and it ranks #13,105 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)
283 Higher than most more violations than 90% 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 Corporation of Harpers Ferry
283 violations on record for WV3301912; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
283 violations · 2,122 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 Corporation of Harpers Ferry
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