Community Water System · PWS WV3305102
Camden on Gauley - Craigsville
Operator location Craigsville, West Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 502 people served; 426 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 502
- People served (this PWS)
- 426
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Camden on Gauley - Craigsville standing, high SDWIS violation third
502 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #28,647 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Camden on Gauley - Craigsville sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (426), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (502; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #28,647 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #309 of 312
- Population · WV
- 426
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- 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
- 179
- County
- Webster
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 298
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 11
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 82 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 76 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 59 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 52 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 51 | 2014 |
| Chlorine | MR | 30 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 24 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 15 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 15 | 2025 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 4 | 2025 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 3 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Camden on Gauley - Craigsville has 426 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 426), and it ranks #28,647 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)
426 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 Camden on Gauley - Craigsville
EPA SDWIS lists 502 people served and 179 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
426 violations · 502 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 Camden on Gauley - Craigsville
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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