Wcpsa-Pound, VA Water Quality
Wcpsa-Pound: EPA violation history, explained
Wcpsa-Pound has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,501 people get their water from it, across 817 connections.
Wcpsa-Pound's record against the rest of the country
36 total violations and 5 health-based ones put Wcpsa-Pound at the 73th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,484 of 12,903.
How Wcpsa-Pound compares within VA
Among the 213 VA systems in this dataset, the average is 4.3 health-based violations - Wcpsa-Pound's 5 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Wcpsa-Pound is from 2020-01-12 (health-based: 2020-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Wcpsa-Pound's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what Wcpsa-Pound reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and Wcpsa-Pound's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,484th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.