Community Water System · PWSID WV3302203

City of West Hamlin

Serves 2,465 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentWest Hamlin, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2003: 103 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 51 missed or late tests · 51 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-02-15.

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
51Missed or late test
51Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 89% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 62008 · Notice or report: 62008 · Notice or report: 62009 · Notice or report: 152009 · Notice or report: 152009 · Notice or report: 152009 · Notice or report: 152009 · Notice or report: 152009 · Notice or report: 152009 · Notice or report: 152009 · Notice or report: 152010 · Notice or report: 142010 · Notice or report: 142010 · Notice or report: 142010 · Notice or report: 142010 · Notice or report: 142010 · Notice or report: 142010 · Notice or report: 1420102012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 192014 · Missed or late test: 192014 · Missed or late test: 192014 · Missed or late test: 192014 · Missed or late test: 192014 · Missed or late test: 192014 · Missed or late test: 192014 · Missed or late test: 192014 · Missed or late test: 192014 · Missed or late test: 1920152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 62020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 1720202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
<1% treatment lapse · 150% missed or late test · 5150% notice or report · 51

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.7 ppb
1.3 ppb
0.9 ppb
0.77 ppb
0.65 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2018-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-02-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2020-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2020-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2020-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2020-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2020-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2020-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2020-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2020-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2020-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2020-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2020-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2019-10-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2019-10-16Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 60 entries
  1. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  2. 2019-09-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2019-08-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2018-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  7. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2018-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  9. 2018-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  10. 2018-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2018-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  14. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2014-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2014-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2014-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2014-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2014-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2014-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2014-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2014-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2014-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2014-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2014-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2014-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2014-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2014-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2014-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2014-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2014-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2014-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2012-02-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  37. 2010-07-22Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  38. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  39. 2010-06-18Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  40. 2010-05-19Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  41. 2010-05-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  42. 2010-04-23Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  43. 2010-04-01Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  44. 2009-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  45. 2009-08-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  46. 2009-07-26Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  47. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  48. 2009-03-18Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  49. 2009-02-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  50. 2009-02-04Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  51. 2009-02-01Public Notice ×5PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  52. 2008-10-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  53. 2008-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  54. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  55. 2008-04-18Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  56. 2008-04-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  57. 2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  58. 2007-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  59. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  60. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,465
Service connections985
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWest Hamlin
EPA ZIP on file25571

Areas served

  • West Hamlin, Lincoln County

Reading this record

City of West Hamlin is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,465 people in West Hamlin, 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.