Community Water System · PWS WV3302437
McDowell County Psd Bradshaw
Operator location Welch, West Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 163 people served; 176 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 163
- People served (this PWS)
- 176
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
McDowell County Psd Bradshaw standing, high SDWIS violation third
163 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
McDowell County Psd Bradshaw sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (176), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (163; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 176
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 163
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 72
- County
- McDowell
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 145
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 33 | 2015 |
| Nitrite | MR | 21 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 18 | 2021 |
| Nitrate | MR | 11 | 2020 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Public Notice | Other | 9 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 7 | 2018 |
| Chlorine | MR | 7 | 2021 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 3 | 2024 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Chlordane | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
McDowell County Psd Bradshaw has 176 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 176), 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)
176 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 McDowell County Psd Bradshaw
EPA SDWIS lists 163 people served and 72 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
176 violations · 163 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 McDowell County Psd Bradshaw
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