Community Water System · PWSID WV3302437

Mcdowell County Psd Bradshaw

Serves 163 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWelch, West Virginia
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. 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 2006: 33 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 23 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-15.

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 lapse1 open
23Missed or late test
9Notice 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 720202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · 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.
3% treatment lapse · 170% missed or late test · 2327% notice or report · 9

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

9.2 ppb
5.2 ppb
2.8 ppb
2.3 ppb
0.72 ppb
0.25 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-05-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-08-31Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-08-31Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  3. 2024-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2021-12-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2021-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2021-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2020-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2020-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  18. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2018-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2017-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2015-12-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2015-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 2015-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 8 entries
  1. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  3. 2015-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2015-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2015-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2012-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2006-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served163
Service connections72
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWelch
EPA ZIP on file24801-6224

Areas served

  • Bradshaw, Mcdowell County

Reading this record

Mcdowell County Psd Bradshaw is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 163 people in Welch, 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.