Community Water System · PWSID WV3301963

Wvaw - the Mountain Water System

Serves 976 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentCharleston, 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 2006: 106 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 91 missed or late tests · 14 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-03-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
91Missed or late test
14Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 90% 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: 22007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 62008 · Notice or report: 62009 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Missed or late test: 562020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 192022 · Missed or late test: 192022 · Missed or late test: 192022 · Missed or late test: 192023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 5 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
<1% treatment lapse · 186% missed or late test · 9113% notice or report · 14

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.7 ppb
1 ppb
0.49 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-03-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-07-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-07-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-07-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-07-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-07-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-07-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-07-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-07-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2022-07-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2022-07-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2022-07-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2022-07-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2022-07-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2022-07-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-07-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-07-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2022-07-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
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  1. 2022-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2021-10-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2021-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  6. 2020-10-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2020-10-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2020-10-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2020-10-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-10-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-10-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2020-10-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2020-10-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-10-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2020-10-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2020-10-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2020-10-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2020-10-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2020-10-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2020-10-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2020-10-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2020-10-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2020-07-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2020-07-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2020-07-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  26. 2020-07-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2020-07-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  28. 2020-07-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2020-07-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  30. 2020-07-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  31. 2020-07-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  32. 2020-07-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  33. 2020-07-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  34. 2020-07-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  35. 2020-07-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  36. 2020-07-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  37. 2020-07-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  38. 2020-07-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  39. 2020-07-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  40. 2020-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  41. 2020-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  42. 2020-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  43. 2020-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  44. 2020-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  45. 2020-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  46. 2020-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  47. 2020-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  48. 2020-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  49. 2020-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  50. 2020-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  51. 2020-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  52. 2020-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  53. 2020-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  54. 2020-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  55. 2020-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  56. 2020-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  57. 2020-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  58. 2020-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  59. 2020-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  60. 2020-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  61. 2020-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  62. 2018-02-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  63. 2017-11-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  64. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  65. 2016-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  66. 2015-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  67. 2015-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  68. 2014-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  69. 2014-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  70. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  71. 2009-02-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  72. 2008-05-03Public Notice ×6PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  73. 2007-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  74. 2006-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  75. 2006-04-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served976
Service connections364
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCharleston
EPA ZIP on file25302

Areas served

  • Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County

Reading this record

Wvaw - the Mountain Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 976 people in Charleston, 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.