Community Water System · PWSID WV3304603

Southwestern Water District

Serves 5,296 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentFlemington, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 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 1994: 22 violations. 2 over the limit · 12 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-15.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test3 open
8Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 48% 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 1199520002005 · Notice or report: 1200520102014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · 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.
9% over the limit · 255% missed or late test · 1236% notice or report · 8

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)2019-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.20 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.00 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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0.71 ppb
0.28 ppb
0.24 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (6)

  1. 2025-08-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-12-30Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  3. 2018-12-30Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  4. 2005-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-06-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  8. 2020-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2019-12-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.20 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2018-12-30Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  13. 2018-12-30Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  14. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  15. 2016-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2016-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2016-03-31Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  18. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2005-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  21. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

System details

Population served5,296
Service connections2,208
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityFlemington
EPA ZIP on file26347

Areas served

  • Flemington, Taylor County

Reading this record

Southwestern Water District is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 5,296 people in Flemington, 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.