Community Water System · PWS WV3305004
Fort Gay Water Works
Operator location Fort Gay, West Virginia - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 419 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,685 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,685
- People served (this PWS)
- 419
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 43
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fort Gay Water Works standing, high SDWIS violation third
419 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 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #14,980 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fort Gay Water Works sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (419), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,685 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,980 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #188 of 312
- Population · WV
- 419
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- 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
- 644
- County
- Wayne
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 281
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 32
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 40 | 2023 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 37 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 26 | 2015 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 21 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 19 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 17 | 2020 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 16 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 14 | 1996 |
| Nitrate | MR | 14 | 2019 |
| Chlorine | MR | 14 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 12 | 2018 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2009 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 8 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 8 | 2018 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 6 | 2025 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 4 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 1997 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fort Gay Water Works has 419 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (43 of 419), and it ranks #14,980 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)
419 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
SDWIS compliance record for Fort Gay Water Works
419 violations on record for WV3305004; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
419 violations · 1,685 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 Fort Gay Water Works
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