Community Water System · PWSID WV3304601

Grafton City of

Serves 6,333 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentGrafton, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 9 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 2014: 33 violations. 14 missed or late tests · 19 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
0Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test7 open
19Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 60% 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

200520102014 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
42% missed or late test · 1458% 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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.3 ppb
1 ppb
0.63 ppb
0.52 ppb
0.41 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (9)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  5. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  6. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  7. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  8. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  9. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2023-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2023-02-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2022-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2022-10-15Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  11. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2021-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  15. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  16. 2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2021-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2021-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2020-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  23. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  24. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  25. 2018-05-05Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 4 entries
  1. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served6,333
Service connections2,795
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGrafton
EPA ZIP on file26354-1357

Areas served

  • Grafton, Taylor County

Reading this record

Grafton City of is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 6,333 people in Grafton, 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.