Community Water System · PWS WV3302460
McDowell County Psd Maybeury
Operator location Welch, West Virginia - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 254 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,648 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,648
- People served (this PWS)
- 254
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 32
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
McDowell County Psd Maybeury standing, high SDWIS violation third
254 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 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,128 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
McDowell County Psd Maybeury sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (254), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,648 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,128 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #193 of 312
- Population · WV
- 254
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 684
- County
- McDowell
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 166
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 32
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 32 | 2021 |
| Public Notice | Other | 24 | 2022 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 22 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 14 | 2024 |
| Chlorine | MR | 11 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 9 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2016 |
| Groundwater Rule | Other | 6 | 2021 |
| Mercury | MR | 6 | 2017 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Endrin | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Dalapon | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Simazine | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Picloram | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 3 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
McDowell County Psd Maybeury has 254 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (32 of 254), and it ranks #15,128 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)
254 Higher than most more violations than 88% 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 McDowell County Psd Maybeury
254 violations on record for WV3302460; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
254 violations · 1,648 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 McDowell County Psd Maybeury
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