West Virginia

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EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    778

  • Community Water Systems

    415

  • Systems with Violations

    509

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    253

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    4,151

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    08/25/2001

  • Population Served

    1,582,967

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    4.60%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    1,280

  • CWA Total Violations

    3,716

The American Community Survey

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

    3,300

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.461%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    1,792,967

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $55,217

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

    6.6%

  • MALE

    894,772

  • FEMALE

    898,195

  • MEDIAN AGE

    42.6

  • MULTIRACIAL

    1,760,057

  • WHITE

    1,625,416

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    60,237

  • LATINO

    32,910

  • ASIAN

    13,602

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    1,465

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    631

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this state here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=WV 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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