Community Water System · PWSID WV3300508

Hammond Psd

Serves 2,186 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentWellsburg, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2006: 67 violations. 1 over the limit · 5 treatment lapses · 47 missed or late tests · 14 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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

1Over the limit
5Treatment lapse
47Missed or late test1 open
14Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 80% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 32018 · Missed or late test: 92018 · Missed or late test: 92018 · Missed or late test: 92018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 72019 · Notice or report: 72019 · Notice or report: 72020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% over the limit · 17% treatment lapse · 570% missed or late test · 4721% notice or report · 14

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)2017-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 62.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)
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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2018-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-05-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2021-02-09Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-08-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  11. 2019-10-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2019-09-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2019-08-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2019-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2019-05-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2019-04-12Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2018-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2018-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2018-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2018-06-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2018-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2018-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
Show the other 40 entries
  1. 2018-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2018-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2018-01-09Surface water treatment (LT2) ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  5. 2018-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2018-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2018-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  8. 2017-12-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2017-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  10. 2017-11-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2017-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2017-10-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2017-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  15. 2017-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2017-09-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2017-06-13DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  19. 2017-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2017-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2017-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2017-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2017-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2017-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2017-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2017-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2017-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2017-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2017-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2017-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2017-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2017-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2017-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2015-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2014-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  38. 2014-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2008-08-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  40. 2006-06-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,186
Service connections909
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWellsburg
EPA ZIP on file26070

Areas served

  • Windsor Heights, Brooke County

Reading this record

Hammond Psd is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,186 people in Wellsburg, 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.