Community Water System · PWSID WV3303901

Albright Town of

Serves 317 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentAlbright, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 12 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2003: 82 violations. 35 missed or late tests · 47 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
35Missed or late test1 open
47Notice or report11 open

More violations on record than 85% of active water systems in West Virginia. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12010 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Notice or report: 220102011 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 62017 · Notice or report: 62017 · Notice or report: 62018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Notice or report: 82022 · Notice or report: 82022 · Notice or report: 82022 · Notice or report: 82023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Notice or report: 62023 · Notice or report: 62023 · Notice or report: 62024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
43% missed or late test · 3557% notice or report · 47

Across West Virginia, 68% of violations are missed or late tests and 1% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (12)

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  5. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  6. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  7. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  8. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  9. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  10. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  11. 2017-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2007-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2024-05-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-11-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2023-11-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2023-02-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2022-11-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  13. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2022-08-13Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  17. 2022-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2022-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2022-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2022-02-13Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2021-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2021-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2021-03-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 46 entries
  1. 2021-03-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2020-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  6. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  7. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  8. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  9. 2018-02-10Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-11-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  14. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  15. 2017-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2017-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  17. 2016-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2016-11-12Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2016-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2016-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2016-04-03Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2016-03-11Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  25. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  26. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  27. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  28. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  29. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  30. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  31. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  32. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  33. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  34. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  35. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  36. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  37. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  38. 2010-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  39. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  40. 2010-08-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  41. 2008-11-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  42. 2007-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  43. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  44. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  45. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  46. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served317
Service connections146
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAlbright
EPA ZIP on file26519

Areas served

  • Albright, Preston County

Reading this record

Albright Town of is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 317 people in Albright, West 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.