Community Water System · PWSID WV3302607

Marshall County Psd 2

Serves 1,601 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentMoundsville, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 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: 33 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 13 missed or late tests · 19 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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
13Missed or late test3 open
19Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 60% 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: 120052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 12010 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 22013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 139% missed or late test · 1358% notice or report · 19

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 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5.3 ppb
3.7 ppb
3.4 ppb
2.6 ppb
2.2 ppb
2 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.9 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2005-03-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2020-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  6. 2019-10-26Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  7. 2019-07-26Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  8. 2018-11-16Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2018-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2017-11-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2017-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 2016-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2015-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2015-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2013-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  22. 2011-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2011-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2010-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  25. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
Show the other 5 entries
  1. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2006-06-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2005-03-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,601
Service connections670
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMoundsville
EPA ZIP on file26041

Areas served

  • Moundsville, Marshall County

Reading this record

Marshall County Psd 2 is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,601 people in Moundsville, 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.