Community Water System · PWS WV3301947
Potomac Farms Water Co
Operator location Charles Town, West Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 65 people served; 1,408 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 65
- People served (this PWS)
- 1,408
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 58
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Potomac Farms Water Co standing, high SDWIS violation third
65 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Potomac Farms Water Co sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (1,408), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (65; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 1,408
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 65
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 23
- County
- Jefferson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 39
- Monitoring Violations
- 1,151
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 19
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 132 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 101 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 94 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 93 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 54 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 46 | 2025 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 45 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 44 | 2008 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 39 | 2024 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 33 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 31 | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 23 | 2011 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 20 | 2011 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| Benzene | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| Toluene | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| Styrene | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 15 | 2017 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 15 | 2017 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Potomac Farms Water Co has 1,408 recorded EPA violations, 100% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 0% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (58 of 1,408), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
1,408 Higher than most more violations than 99%+ of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Potomac Farms Water Co
EPA SDWIS lists 65 people served and 23 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
1,408 violations · 65 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.
What to do with Potomac Farms Water Co
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