Community Water System · PWSID WV3302421

Welch City of

Serves 2,907 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentWelch, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2005: 44 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 30 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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
4Treatment lapse
30Missed or late test1 open
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 68% 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: 120052009 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132014 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% treatment lapse · 468% missed or late test · 3023% notice or report · 10

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.6 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.2 ppb
1.1 ppb
1.1 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod 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. 2025-02-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-06-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2022-11-14Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2022-08-07Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  13. 2022-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  16. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2020-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2017-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2017-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2017-09-11Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  24. 2017-02-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2015-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 15 entries
  1. 2014-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2014-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2014-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2014-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2014-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2014-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2014-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2014-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2014-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2014-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2014-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2014-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2014-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2009-03-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2005-08-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,907
Service connections1,009
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWelch
EPA ZIP on file24801

Areas served

  • Welch, Mcdowell County

Reading this record

Welch City of is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,907 people in Welch, 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.