Community Water System · PWSID WV3301309

Rainelle Water Dept

Serves 1,381 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentRainelle, 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 2004: 47 violations. 10 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 21 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-29.

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

10Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
21Missed or late test1 open
12Notice or report3 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

2004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
21% over the limit · 109% treatment lapse · 445% missed or late test · 2126% notice or report · 12

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2024-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 79.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.3×)2024-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 71.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)2024-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 94.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.6×)2023-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 94.63 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.6×)2023-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 95.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.6×)2023-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 61.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2023-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 80.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.3×)2023-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 66.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2023-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 71.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)
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 11 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.6 ppb
3.4 ppb
3.4 ppb
3.3 ppb
2 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.2 ppb
0.89 ppb
0.84 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.7 mg/L
1.5 mg/L
1.5 mg/L

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2006-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2024-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 79.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-07-02Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  8. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 71.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 94.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2024-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  14. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 94.63 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-07-09Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  17. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 95.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  19. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  20. 2023-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 66.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2022-07-01OrthophosphateWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  25. 2022-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
Show the other 18 entries
  1. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  4. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2021-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2021-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-07-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2017-07-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2017-04-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  15. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  16. 2008-02-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2006-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  18. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,381
Service connections692
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityRainelle
EPA ZIP on file25962

Areas served

  • Rainelle, Greenbrier County

Reading this record

Rainelle Water Dept is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,381 people in Rainelle, 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.