Community Water System · PWSID WV3303924

Preston Co Psd 1 Purchaser

Serves 291 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateArthurdale, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 1995: 30 violations. 19 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
19Missed or late test
11Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 57% 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

1995 · Missed or late test: 1199520002003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 32005 · Notice or report: 32005 · Notice or report: 320052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 120152019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
63% missed or late test · 1937% notice or report · 11

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

1 ppb
0.35 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2005-05-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  10. 2021-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2021-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2021-05-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2021-03-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2021-03-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2019-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2019-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  21. 2011-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  22. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2005-05-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  25. 2005-02-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 4 entries
  1. 2005-01-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 1995-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served291
Service connections112
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityArthurdale
EPA ZIP on file26520

Areas served

  • Arthurdale, Preston County

Reading this record

Preston Co Psd 1 Purchaser is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 291 people in Arthurdale, 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.