Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID WV9919002

Usda Appalachian Fruit Research Station

Serves 70 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalKearneysville, 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 2006: 50 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 44 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-29.

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
1Treatment lapse
44Missed or late test2 open
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 73% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12014 · Treatment lapse: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 320152017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Missed or late test: 192017 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 112023 · Missed or late test: 112023 · Missed or late test: 112023 · Missed or late test: 112023 · Missed or late test: 112023 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% treatment lapse · 188% missed or late test · 4410% notice or report · 5

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 14 results on file · action level 15 ppb

52.4 ppb
52.4 ppb
17.6 ppb
7.7 ppb
6.3 ppb
2.1 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.6 ppb
0.17 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2024-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-07-01LeadWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-07-01Copper, FreeWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-01-01Calcium ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-01-01Temperature (Centigrade) ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-01-01Alkalinity, Total ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-01-01pH ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-01-01Conductivity @ 25 C Umhos/Cm ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-02-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2020-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2020-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2017-11-16Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2017-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2017-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2017-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2017-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2017-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2017-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2017-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2017-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 19 entries
  1. 2017-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2017-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2017-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2017-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2017-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2017-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2017-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2017-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2017-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2015-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2015-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2015-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2014-12-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  16. 2011-11-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2010-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2006-10-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served70
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityKearneysville
EPA ZIP on file25430

Areas served

  • Kearneysville, Jefferson County

Reading this record

Usda Appalachian Fruit Research Station is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 70 people in Kearneysville, 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.