Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID WV9939036

Aurora Elementary and Jr High

Serves 195 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentAurora, West VirginiaServes a school or daycare
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 1991: 29 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 21 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-14.

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
2Treatment lapse1 open
21Missed or late test1 open
6Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 56% 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

1991 · Missed or late test: 11994 · Missed or late test: 11995 · Missed or late test: 119951996 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Missed or late test: 12000 · Missed or late test: 22000 · Missed or late test: 220002004 · Missed or late test: 1200520102014 · Treatment lapse: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% treatment lapse · 272% missed or late test · 2121% notice or report · 6

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 10 results on file · action level 15 ppb

17 ppb
10.3 ppb
10 ppb
9.9 ppb
3.8 ppb
2.4 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.3 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-09-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2024-06-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-04-21Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2024-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-06-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-04-21Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  8. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2021-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2021-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2018-02-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2017-08-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  19. 2016-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  20. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2014-12-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  22. 2004-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2000-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 2000-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 1999-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 4 entries
  1. 1996-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  2. 1995-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  4. 1991-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served195
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAurora
EPA ZIP on file26705

Areas served

  • Aurora, Preston County

Reading this record

Aurora Elementary and Jr High is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 195 people in Aurora, 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.