Community Water System · PWSID WV3301728

West Milford Water Works

Serves 645 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentWest Milford, West Virginia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 5 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 2010: 29 violations. 4 over the limit · 16 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-07-01.

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

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
16Missed or late test2 open
9Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 56% 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

20052010 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
14% over the limit · 455% missed or late test · 1631% notice or report · 9

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)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 114.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.4×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 91.20 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 87.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 101.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)
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 9 results on file · action level 15 ppb

6.3 ppb
4.9 ppb
2 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.2 ppb
0.96 ppb
0.95 ppb
0.51 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2020-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  5. 2010-01-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2021-11-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2020-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  5. 2020-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2020-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2020-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2020-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  10. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2018-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2018-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 114.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2015-11-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 91.20 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2015-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2015-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 87.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 101.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2010-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2010-01-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served645
Service connections270
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWest Milford
EPA ZIP on file26451

Areas served

  • West Milford, Harrison County

Reading this record

West Milford Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 645 people in West Milford, 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.