Community Water System · PWSID WV3301721

Shinnston City of

Serves 4,959 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentShinnston, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 17 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 2003: 78 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 45 missed or late tests · 31 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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
2Treatment lapse
45Missed or late test2 open
31Notice or report15 open

More violations on record than 85% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 172014 · Missed or late test: 172014 · Missed or late test: 172014 · Missed or late test: 172014 · Missed or late test: 172014 · Missed or late test: 172014 · Missed or late test: 172014 · Missed or late test: 172014 · Missed or late test: 172014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 42017 · Notice or report: 42018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 320202021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 258% missed or late test · 4540% notice or report · 31

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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2 ppb
1.2 ppb
0.94 ppb
0.92 ppb
0.92 ppb
0.86 ppb
0.62 ppb

Open now (17)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2025-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2024-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2024-05-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2024-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2023-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  9. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  10. 2023-05-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2022-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  12. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  13. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  14. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  15. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  16. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2025-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2024-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2024-05-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2024-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2024-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2023-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  11. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  13. 2023-05-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2023-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2022-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  17. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  18. 2022-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2022-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2022-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  24. 2021-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
Show the other 51 entries
  1. 2021-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2021-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2021-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2021-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  7. 2020-08-04Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  8. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  9. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  10. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2019-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-08-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2018-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  17. 2017-10-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2017-09-03Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  19. 2017-08-13Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2017-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2017-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2017-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  23. 2016-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  26. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  27. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  28. 2014-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2014-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2014-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2014-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2014-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2014-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2014-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2014-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2014-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2014-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  38. 2014-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2014-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2014-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2014-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2014-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2014-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  44. 2014-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2013-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  46. 2013-09-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  47. 2012-01-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  48. 2011-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  49. 2008-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  50. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  51. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served4,959
Service connections2,193
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityShinnston
EPA ZIP on file26431

Areas served

  • Shinnston, Harrison County

Reading this record

Shinnston City of is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 4,959 people in Shinnston, 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.