Community Water System · PWS WV3302947
Carpendale, Town Of
Operator location Ridgeley, West Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 937 people served; 67 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 937
- People served (this PWS)
- 67
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Carpendale, Town Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
937 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,579 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Carpendale, Town Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (67), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (937; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,579 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #259 of 312
- Population · WV
- 67
- Total EPA violations on record
- 12%
- 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
- 388
- County
- Mineral
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 53
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 11 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2001 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2024 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2002 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2017 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 4 | 2018 |
| Nitrite | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2019 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Carpendale, Town Of has 67 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 67), and it ranks #20,579 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)
67 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 Carpendale, Town Of
EPA SDWIS lists 937 people served and 388 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
67 violations · 937 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Carpendale, Town Of
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in West Virginia compares on the same EPA violation measures. West Virginia systems
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