Community Water System · PWSID WV3303602

Franklin Municipality of

Serves 1,402 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentFranklin, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 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 1984: 72 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 53 missed or late tests · 18 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
53Missed or late test
18Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 83% 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

1984 · Missed or late test: 119851990199520002003 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 42017 · Notice or report: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 112018 · Missed or late test: 112018 · Missed or late test: 112018 · Missed or late test: 112018 · Missed or late test: 112018 · Missed or late test: 112018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Notice or report: 12020 · 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: 172020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · 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 · 174% missed or late test · 5325% notice or report · 18

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

5.1 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.2 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2023-02-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-02-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2020-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2020-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2020-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2020-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2020-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2020-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2020-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2020-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2020-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2020-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2020-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
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  1. 2020-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2020-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  5. 2019-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2019-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  9. 2019-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-03-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-03-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-12-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2018-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-11-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2018-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  17. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  18. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2018-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  21. 2018-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2018-07-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2018-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  25. 2018-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  26. 2018-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2017-11-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2017-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  30. 2017-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  31. 2017-06-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  32. 2017-05-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  33. 2016-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  34. 2016-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  35. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  36. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  37. 2015-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  38. 2015-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  39. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  40. 2008-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  41. 2008-05-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  42. 2006-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  43. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  44. 1984-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,402
Service connections704
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityFranklin
EPA ZIP on file26807

Areas served

  • Franklin, Pendleton County

Reading this record

Franklin Municipality of is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,402 people in Franklin, 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.