Community Water System · PWSID WV3302207

Lincoln Psd - Route 3

Serves 2,226 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateAlum Creek, West Virginia
2 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 2014: 54 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 35 missed or late tests · 17 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-13.

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 lapse2 open
35Missed or late test2 open
17Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 75% 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 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 320202021 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 265% missed or late test · 3531% notice or report · 17

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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.6 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.1 ppb
1 ppb
0.9 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (8)

  1. 2025-07-13Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-09-04Surface water treatment (LT2) ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  3. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2024-03-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  6. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-13Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-11-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-09-04Surface water treatment (LT2) ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  9. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  10. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-03-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2024-03-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  15. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2021-08-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2020-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  20. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  21. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2020-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  23. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2020-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2020-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 26 entries
  1. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2020-02-29Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2020-02-29Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  5. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2018-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  19. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2016-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  24. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  26. 2014-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,226
Service connections817
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAlum Creek
EPA ZIP on file25003

Areas served

  • Griffithsville, Lincoln County

Reading this record

Lincoln Psd - Route 3 is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 2,226 people in Alum Creek, 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.