Community Water System · PWSID VA1051737

Dcpsa - Big Caney

Serves 3,660 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentClintwood, Virginia
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On record since 2023: 1 violation. 1 over the limit. Most recent began 2023-04-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 28% of active water systems in Virginia. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052010201520202023 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% over the limit · 1

Across Virginia, 74% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2023-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 63.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 63.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served3,660
Service connections1,442
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityClintwood
EPA ZIP on file24228

Areas served

  • Dickenson County

Reading this record

Dcpsa - Big Caney is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 3,660 people in Clintwood, Virginia. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.