Community Water System · PWSID WV3300408

Burnsville Public Utility

Serves 1,126 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentBurnsville, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 5 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 2008: 53 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 33 missed or late tests · 19 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
33Missed or late test
19Notice or report5 open

More violations on record than 74% 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

20052008 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 320202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 242024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% treatment lapse · 162% missed or late test · 3336% notice or report · 19

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.3 ppb
1.1 ppb
0.6 ppb
0.5 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2024-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2008-08-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2008-03-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2024-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2022-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2022-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2022-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2022-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2022-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2022-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2022-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2022-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2022-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 25 entries
  1. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2019-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2019-03-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2019-03-08Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  9. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  10. 2018-09-12Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-08-13Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2017-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  16. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  18. 2016-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  19. 2016-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2012-02-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2011-07-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  24. 2008-08-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  25. 2008-03-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served1,126
Service connections496
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBurnsville
EPA ZIP on file26335

Areas served

  • Burnsville, Braxton County

Reading this record

Burnsville Public Utility is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,126 people in Burnsville, 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.