Community Water System · PWS WV3304301
Cairo Water Department
Operator location Cairo, West Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 339 people served; 210 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 339
- People served (this PWS)
- 210
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 30
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cairo Water Department standing, high SDWIS violation third
339 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Cairo Water Department sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (210), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (339; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 210
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 339
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 163
- County
- Ritchie
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 23
- Monitoring Violations
- 147
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 7
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MR | 37 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 31 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MCL | 20 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2004 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 14 | 2023 |
| Public Notice | Other | 13 | 2023 |
| Chlorine | MR | 12 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2015 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 2021 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2019 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 3 | 1995 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 2004 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 3 | 1995 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 3 | 2016 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cairo Water Department has 210 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 210), 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)
210 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Cairo Water Department
EPA SDWIS lists 339 people served and 163 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
210 violations · 339 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 Cairo Water Department
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