Transient Non-Community · PWSID WV9947031

Black Bear Woods

Serves 283 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDavis, West Virginia
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 2010: 25 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 7 missed or late tests · 16 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-01.

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
2Treatment lapse1 open
7Missed or late test
16Notice or report

More violations on record than 52% 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

20052010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 62011 · Notice or report: 62011 · Notice or report: 62011 · Notice or report: 62011 · Notice or report: 62011 · Notice or report: 62013 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 22015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% treatment lapse · 228% missed or late test · 764% notice or report · 16

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2021-03-10Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-08-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-03-10Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  7. 2020-12-10Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  8. 2019-12-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2019-07-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2019-04-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2016-06-20Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  15. 2015-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2013-07-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2013-02-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2011-10-26Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2011-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2011-07-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2011-04-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2011-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2010-10-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served283
Service connections117
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDavis
EPA ZIP on file26260

Areas served

  • Davis, Tucker County

Reading this record

Black Bear Woods is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 283 people in Davis, 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.