Transient Non-Community · PWSID WV9942081

Shavers Fork Campground

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateElkins, West Virginia
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform 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 2005: 19 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 9 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-01.

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
3Treatment lapse1 open
9Missed or late test
7Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 44% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 1200520102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
16% treatment lapse · 347% missed or late test · 937% notice or report · 7

Across West Virginia, 68% of violations are missed or late tests and 1% are water over a limit.

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (2)

  1. 2018-04-06Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2016-02-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2020-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2018-07-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2018-04-06Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  7. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2016-05-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2016-04-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-02-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2015-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2014-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2012-07-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2012-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2012-01-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2011-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2005-03-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections10
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityElkins
EPA ZIP on file26241

Areas served

  • Bowden, Randolph County

Reading this record

Shavers Fork Campground is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Elkins, 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.