Community Water System · PWSID WV3303909

Masontown Water Works

Serves 2,239 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentMasontown, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 5 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 2006: 23 violations. 6 missed or late tests · 17 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-12-30.

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
0Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test1 open
17Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 49% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 52009 · Notice or report: 52009 · Notice or report: 52009 · Notice or report: 52009 · Notice or report: 520102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
26% missed or late test · 674% 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0.2 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2008-05-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2007-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2006-12-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2006-07-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-12-30Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  2. 2023-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2022-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  6. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2017-02-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2016-05-26Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2009-07-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2009-05-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2009-03-13Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2008-05-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  17. 2007-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  18. 2006-12-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  19. 2006-07-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served2,239
Service connections941
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMasontown
EPA ZIP on file26542

Areas served

  • Masontown, Preston County

Reading this record

Masontown Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 2,239 people in Masontown, 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.