Community Water System · PWSID WV3305302

Elizabeth Water Dept

Serves 2,289 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentElizabeth, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 10 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 2009: 47 violations. 2 over the limit · 26 missed or late tests · 19 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
0Treatment lapse
26Missed or late test1 open
19Notice or report9 open

More violations on record than 70% 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

20052009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 82019 · Missed or late test: 82019 · Missed or late test: 82019 · Missed or late test: 82019 · Missed or late test: 82019 · Missed or late test: 82019 · Missed or late test: 82019 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Notice or report: 62020 · Notice or report: 62020 · Notice or report: 62020 · Notice or report: 62020 · Notice or report: 62020 · Notice or report: 620202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 255% missed or late test · 2640% notice or report · 19

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2020-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 105.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.8×)2018-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.00 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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

6.9 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.4 ppb

Open now (10)

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2022-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2022-08-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2020-05-15Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2020-04-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2022-08-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2021-03-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-03-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2021-01-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 105.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2020-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2020-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2020-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-05-15Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2020-04-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  17. 2019-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2019-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2019-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  21. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2019-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  25. 2018-12-30Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
Show the other 15 entries
  1. 2018-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2018-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2017-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2016-05-08Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2016-02-13Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2009-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,289
Service connections1,043
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityElizabeth
EPA ZIP on file26143

Areas served

  • Elizabeth, Wirt County

Reading this record

Elizabeth Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 2,289 people in Elizabeth, 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.