Community Water System · PWSID WV3303815

Hillsboro Town of

Serves 262 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHillsboro, 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 2003: 64 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 34 missed or late tests · 29 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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
34Missed or late test
29Notice or report10 open

More violations on record than 79% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 1200520102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 820202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% treatment lapse · 153% missed or late test · 3445% notice or report · 29

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 10 results on file · action level 15 ppb

7 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.2 ppb
1 ppb
0.9 ppb
0.74 ppb
0.6 ppb

Open now (10)

  1. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2021-11-14Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2020-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2020-10-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  6. 2020-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-09-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  5. 2022-01-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2021-11-14Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2021-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-04-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2021-02-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2020-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2020-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2020-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2020-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-10-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  17. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2020-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  19. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  20. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2020-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  25. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 34 entries
  1. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2019-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2018-12-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2018-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2018-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-02-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  18. 2017-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2017-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  21. 2017-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  23. 2016-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2016-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  26. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  27. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  28. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  29. 2014-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2013-09-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  31. 2012-03-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  32. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  33. 2005-04-21Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  34. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served262
Service connections127
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHillsboro
EPA ZIP on file24946

Areas served

  • Hillsboro, Pocahontas County

Reading this record

Hillsboro Town of is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 262 people in Hillsboro, 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.