Community Water System · PWSID WV3302915

Keyser City of

Serves 4,796 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentKeyser, 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 2011: 36 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 26 missed or late tests · 8 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
2Treatment lapse
26Missed or late test1 open
8Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 62% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 1020202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 272% missed or late test · 2622% notice or report · 8

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

4.4 ppb
3.9 ppb
2.8 ppb
2.8 ppb
2.3 ppb
2.3 ppb
2.2 ppb
2.2 ppb
2.2 ppb
1.7 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2020-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2020-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2020-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2020-07-24Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  12. 2020-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2020-02-29Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2020-02-29Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2020-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  17. 2020-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2019-11-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2019-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2019-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2019-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  22. 2019-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-02-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  25. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
Show the other 10 entries
  1. 2018-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2018-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2017-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2017-06-29Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  6. 2017-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2014-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2013-05-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2011-01-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served4,796
Service connections2,246
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityKeyser
EPA ZIP on file26726

Areas served

  • Keyser, Mineral County

Reading this record

Keyser City of is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 4,796 people in Keyser, 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.