Community Water System · PWS WV3303308
Paw Paw Water Works
Operator location Paw Paw, West Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 524 people served; 294 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 524
- People served (this PWS)
- 294
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 20
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Paw Paw Water Works standing, high SDWIS violation third
524 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 7% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #28,090 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Paw Paw Water Works sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (294), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (524; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 7% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #28,090 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #303 of 312
- Population · WV
- 294
- Total EPA violations on record
- 7%
- 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
- 243
- County
- Morgan
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 228
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 13
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 24 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 24 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 19 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 12 | 2023 |
| Chlorine | MR | 12 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 9 | 2020 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Picloram | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Simazine | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Chlordane | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| LASSO | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Atrazine | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 1994 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 6 | 2022 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 6 | 2024 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 5 | 2021 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 4 | 2018 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Paw Paw Water Works has 294 recorded EPA violations, 91% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 9% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 294), and it ranks #28,090 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)
294 Higher than most more violations than 91% 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 Paw Paw Water Works
EPA SDWIS lists 524 people served and 243 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
294 violations · 524 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Paw Paw Water Works
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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