Community Water System · PWSID WV3301411

Central Hampshire Psd

Serves 2,274 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentAugusta, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 2004: 25 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 10 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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 lapse
10Missed or late test
13Notice or report3 open

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

2004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · 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.
8% treatment lapse · 240% missed or late test · 1052% notice or report · 13

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.4 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.1 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  3. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  3. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2021-07-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2021-03-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-03-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2020-05-07Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  10. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2019-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2017-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2017-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2017-03-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  16. 2017-02-04Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  17. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  18. 2015-01-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2014-12-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2013-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  21. 2010-04-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2006-10-20Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  24. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,274
Service connections1,072
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAugusta
EPA ZIP on file26704

Areas served

  • Hampshire County

Reading this record

Central Hampshire Psd is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 2,274 people in Augusta, 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.