Community Water System · PWSID WV3305004

Fort Gay Water Works

Serves 1,685 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentFort Gay, West Virginia
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Surface water treatment (LT2). 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 2004: 71 violations. 2 over the limit · 8 treatment lapses · 31 missed or late tests · 30 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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

2Over the limit
8Treatment lapse1 open
31Missed or late test
30Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 82% 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

2004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 22007 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Notice or report: 42008 · Notice or report: 42009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 22014 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Missed or late test: 102017 · Missed or late test: 102017 · Missed or late test: 102017 · Missed or late test: 102017 · Missed or late test: 102017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Notice or report: 72018 · Notice or report: 72018 · Notice or report: 72018 · Notice or report: 72019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · 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.
3% over the limit · 211% treatment lapse · 844% missed or late test · 3142% notice or report · 30

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)2018-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 72.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)2018-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 68.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 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

2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2023-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2023-08-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  4. 2016-07-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  8. 2023-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2023-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  10. 2023-08-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  11. 2023-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2023-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2023-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2022-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  18. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2019-08-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2019-06-06Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  21. 2019-01-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  24. 2018-09-12Public Notice ×5PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2018-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
Show the other 39 entries
  1. 2018-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2018-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  4. 2018-04-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 72.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 68.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-12-30Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  9. 2017-12-02Surface water treatment (LT2) ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  10. 2017-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  11. 2017-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2017-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  16. 2017-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  17. 2017-06-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  18. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  20. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2016-10-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  24. 2016-08-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2016-07-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  26. 2016-07-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2016-07-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  28. 2014-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2011-07-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2011-03-08Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  31. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  32. 2009-02-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  33. 2008-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  34. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  35. 2008-02-09Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  36. 2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  37. 2006-09-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  38. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  39. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,685
Service connections644
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityFort Gay
EPA ZIP on file25514

Areas served

  • Wayne County

Reading this record

Fort Gay Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,685 people in Fort Gay, 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.