Transient Non-Community · PWSID WV9947006

Canaan Valley National Wildlife Reserve

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDavis, West Virginia
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2017: 15 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 9 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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
3Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 37% 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

2005201020152017 · Treatment lapse: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 32017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% treatment lapse · 360% missed or late test · 920% notice or report · 3

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2021-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2018-01-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2017-12-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2017-12-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2017-10-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2017-09-24Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  14. 2017-09-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDavis
EPA ZIP on file26260

Areas served

  • Canaan Valley, Tucker County

Reading this record

Canaan Valley National Wildlife Reserve is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 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.