Community Water System · PWSID WV3303808

Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water

Serves 1,867 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateDurbin, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 9 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 2002: 46 violations. 13 over the limit · 15 missed or late tests · 18 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-05.

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

13Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test
18Notice or report9 open

More violations on record than 70% 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

2002 · Missed or late test: 120052008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 52017 · Over the limit: 52017 · Over the limit: 52017 · Over the limit: 52017 · Over the limit: 52017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62022 · Notice or report: 62024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
28% over the limit · 1333% missed or late test · 1539% notice or report · 18

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2025-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 89.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2025-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 87.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2024-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 88.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2022-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 62.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2019-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2018-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 63.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 88.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 61.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2017-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 62.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 88.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 68.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 87.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)
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 12 results on file · action level 15 ppb

22.4 ppb
2.5 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.4 ppb
0.97 ppb
0.9 ppb
0.59 ppb
0.5 ppb
0.24 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (9)

  1. 2025-04-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-02-16Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2022-12-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2022-07-16Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 89.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 87.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-02-16Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2022-12-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2022-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2022-07-16Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2021-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2021-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2021-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  21. 2020-01-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2018-10-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2018-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 63.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 15 entries
  1. 2018-04-03Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2018-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 68.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 87.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2011-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2009-11-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2008-04-19Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2002-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,867
Service connections210
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDurbin
EPA ZIP on file26264

Areas served

  • Snowshoe Resort, Pocahontas County

Reading this record

Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,867 people in Durbin, 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.