Community Water System · PWS WV3303914
Rowlesburg Water Works
Operator location Rowlesburg, West Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 680 people served; 437 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 680
- People served (this PWS)
- 437
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 77
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Rowlesburg Water Works standing, high SDWIS violation third
680 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 18% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #24,746 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Rowlesburg Water Works sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (437), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (680; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 18% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #24,746 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #283 of 312
- Population · WV
- 437
- Total EPA violations on record
- 18%
- 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
- 287
- County
- Preston
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 28
- Monitoring Violations
- 288
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 49
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 42 | 2024 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 40 | 2022 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 36 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 32 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 31 | 2024 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 29 | 2024 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 27 | 1996 |
| Chlorine | MR | 22 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 19 | 2006 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 19 | 2017 |
| Nitrate | MR | 14 | 2022 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 11 | 2022 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 10 | 2022 |
| Turbidity | Other | 9 | 1997 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 8 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 7 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 1991 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 5 | 1993 |
| Cryptosporidium | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| TTHM | MCL | 4 | 2005 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Rowlesburg Water Works has 437 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (77 of 437), and it ranks #24,746 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)
437 Higher than most more violations than 94% 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 Rowlesburg Water Works
EPA SDWIS lists 680 people served and 287 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
437 violations · 680 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 Rowlesburg Water Works
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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