Community Water System · PWSID WV3301912

Corporation of Harpers Ferry

Serves 2,122 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentHarpers Ferry, 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 2003: 55 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 33 missed or late tests · 19 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-11.

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
33Missed or late test2 open
19Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 76% 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 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 32014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% treatment lapse · 360% missed or late test · 3335% 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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.9 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.7 ppb
2.6 ppb
2.2 ppb
2.2 ppb
2 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-07-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2025-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  6. 2025-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2023-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2023-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2023-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2023-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2023-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2023-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2023-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2022-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2022-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 29 entries
  1. 2022-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2019-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2019-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-05-23Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  6. 2017-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  8. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2016-02-29Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-02-29Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2014-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2014-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2013-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  20. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2013-02-07Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  25. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  26. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  27. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  28. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  29. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,122
Service connections814
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHarpers Ferry
EPA ZIP on file25425

Areas served

  • Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County

Reading this record

Corporation of Harpers Ferry is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,122 people in Harpers Ferry, 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.