McDowell County, West Virginia

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EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    24

  • Community Water Systems

    20

  • Systems with Violations

    17

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    9

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    128

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    02/17/2012

  • Population Served

    14,377

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    14.04%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    81

  • CWA Total Violations

    192

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    12

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.183%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    18,911

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $28,235

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    18.7%

  • MALE

    9,428

  • FEMALE

    9,483

  • MEDIAN AGE

    45.3

  • MULTIRACIAL

    18,525

  • WHITE

    15,249

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    2,667

  • LATINO

    386

  • ASIAN

    29

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    31

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    0

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=WV&p_fips=54047 Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/west-virginia/ Additional state water resources:https://sensoto.io/en/water/West_Virginia-03adfe/

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