Community Water System · PWS WV3305107
Camden on Gauley - Cowen
Operator location Craigsville, West Virginia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 79 people served; 536 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 79
- People served (this PWS)
- 536
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 19
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Camden on Gauley - Cowen standing, high SDWIS violation third
79 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Camden on Gauley - Cowen sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (536), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (79; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 536
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 79
- 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
- 28
- County
- Webster
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 16
- Monitoring Violations
- 388
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 115 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 81 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 72 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 66 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 62 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 47 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 42 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 18 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 16 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 13 | 2022 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 3 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Camden on Gauley - Cowen has 536 recorded EPA violations, 96% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 4% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (19 of 536), 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)
536 Higher than most more violations than 96% 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 - Cowen
EPA SDWIS lists 79 people served and 28 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
536 violations · 79 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 Camden on Gauley - Cowen
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