Community Water System · PWSID WV3304115

Lester Municipal Water Works

Serves 665 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentLester, West Virginia
4 open treatment violations.

Open for: Surface water treatment (LT2). EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2003: 86 violations. 4 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 31 missed or late tests · 47 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

4Over the limit
4Treatment lapse4 open
31Missed or late test1 open
47Notice or report14 open

More violations on record than 87% 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: 12004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 42006 · Notice or report: 42007 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 220102011 · Notice or report: 32011 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 52020 · Notice or report: 52020 · Notice or report: 520202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 42024 · Treatment lapse: 42024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52025 · Over the limit: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 45% treatment lapse · 436% missed or late test · 3155% notice or report · 47

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)2025-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 67.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2024-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 71.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)2024-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 63.53 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2022-10-01 · 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

14.1 ppb
2.5 ppb
1.1 ppb
0.41 ppb

Open now (19)

  1. 2024-11-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-09-15Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-06-02Surface water treatment (LT2) ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  4. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  5. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  6. 2020-05-13Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2020-02-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  9. 2019-02-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 67.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-12-30Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  3. 2024-11-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2024-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2024-09-15Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 71.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-06-02Surface water treatment (LT2) ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  8. 2024-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 63.53 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  10. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2023-02-12Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2022-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  18. 2022-05-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  20. 2021-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2021-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
Show the other 49 entries
  1. 2020-05-13Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2020-02-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2019-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  8. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2019-02-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  14. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2017-01-18Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  19. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  20. 2016-12-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  22. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  26. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  27. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  28. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  29. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  30. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  31. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  32. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  33. 2011-06-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  34. 2011-05-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  35. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  36. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  37. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  38. 2009-02-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  39. 2009-01-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  40. 2007-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  41. 2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  42. 2007-09-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  43. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  44. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  45. 2006-04-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  46. 2006-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  47. 2006-03-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  48. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  49. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served665
Service connections287
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLester
EPA ZIP on file25865

Areas served

  • Lester, Raleigh County

Reading this record

Lester Municipal Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 665 people in Lester, 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.