Community Water System · PWSID WV3300902

Doddridge County Psd

Serves 48 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentWest Union, West Virginia

1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead and Copper Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2019: 36 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 20 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

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

3Treatment lapse1 open

20Missed or late test

13Notice or report

More violations on record than 62% 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

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

8% treatment lapse · 356% missed or late test · 2036% notice or report · 13

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

What you can do

Lead: Run cold water for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using it for drinking or cooking, especially after the water has been sitting for several hours. Use only cold water for cooking and baby formula. Consider a water filter certified to remove lead (look for NSF/ANSI Standard 53 certification). Have your water tested if you live in an older home.

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 12 results on file · action level 15 ppb

123 ppb

6 ppb

5 ppb

4.8 ppb

3.1 ppb

2.7 ppb

1.9 ppb

1.8 ppb

1.7 ppb

1.2 ppb

0.26 ppb

0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 6 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

4.1 mg/L

2.2 mg/L

2 mg/L

1.5 mg/L

1.4 mg/L

Open now (1)

2020-10-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationOpen

Every violation on record

2023-07-01Lead and Copper Rule ×4Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2023-01-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
2022-07-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2022-02-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2022-02-12Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2022-02-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2021-07-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-04-09Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
2021-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2021-01-01pHWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
2020-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2020-10-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationOpen
2020-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2020-07-01Temperature (Centigrade)Water Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2020-07-01LeadWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2020-07-01Copper, FreeWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2020-05-13Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

Show the other 3 entries

2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2019-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served	48
Service connections	1
Water source	Surface Water Purchased
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	West Union
EPA ZIP on file	26456

Areas served

Doddridge County

Reading this record

Doddridge County Psd is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 48 people in West Union, 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.