Community Water System · PWSID WV3305001

Ceredo Water Works

Serves 1,472 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentCeredo, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 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 2005: 30 violations. 2 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 5 missed or late tests · 20 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

2Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test1 open
20Notice or report5 open

More violations on record than 57% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 220102014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 32019 · Treatment lapse: 32019 · Treatment lapse: 32019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% over the limit · 210% treatment lapse · 317% missed or late test · 567% notice or report · 20

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.70 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 88.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.6 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.3 ppb
0.8 ppb
0.64 ppb
0.64 ppb

Open now (6)

  1. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2020-09-12Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2010-11-28Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2020-09-12Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2019-12-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2019-09-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2019-09-05Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2019-08-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2019-08-08Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  10. 2019-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2019-06-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  14. 2019-03-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2019-03-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.70 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  21. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  24. 2010-11-28Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  25. 2007-12-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2006-06-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2005-06-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,472
Service connections641
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCeredo
EPA ZIP on file25507

Areas served

  • Ceredo, Wayne County

Reading this record

Ceredo Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,472 people in Ceredo, 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.