Community Water System · PWS WV3305001
Ceredo Water Works
Operator location Ceredo, West Virginia - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 194 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,472 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,472
- People served (this PWS)
- 194
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 43
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Ceredo Water Works standing, high SDWIS violation third
194 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 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,181 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Ceredo Water Works sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (194), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,472 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,181 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #207 of 312
- Population · WV
- 194
- Total EPA violations on record
- 22%
- 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
- 641
- County
- Wayne
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 29
- Monitoring Violations
- 76
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 14
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 39 | 2010 |
| TTHM | MCL | 29 | 2018 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 23 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 21 | 2020 |
| TTHM | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 8 | 2019 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 6 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2023 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 4 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Ceredo Water Works has 194 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (43 of 194), and it ranks #16,181 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)
194 Higher than most more violations than 85% 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 Ceredo Water Works
194 violations on record for WV3305001; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
194 violations · 1,472 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 Ceredo Water Works
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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