Alyeska Inc, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Alyeska Inc at a glance
Alyeska Inc serves about 50 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Preston County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV9939113; phone on file: 304-379-4382. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alyeska Inc is 2.3 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.26 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.9 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 408 West Virginia systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.9 ppb; 4 are over 15 ppb right now and 20 have gone over at some point. Alyeska Inc's 0.5 ppb sits at the 32nd percentile in West Virginia and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Preston County
10 other systems share Preston County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alyeska Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Preston County Psd 4 | 8,753 | 5.2 ppb |
| Kingwood Water Board | 7,674 | 1.5 ppb |
| Masontown Water Works | 2,239 | 0 (not detected) |
| Terra Alta Water Works | 1,856 | 3.1 ppb |
| Tunnelton Town Of | 1,346 | 1 ppb |
| Alpine Lake Public Utilities | 1,325 | 0.54 ppb |
| Newburg Town Of | 1,133 | 0.76 ppb |
| Rowlesburg Water Works | 680 | 0.52 ppb |
| Albright Town Of | 334 | 1 ppb |
| Arthurdale Water Assoc. | 264 | 3.7 ppb |
Next steps for Bruceton Mills, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bruceton Mills, WV may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Alyeska Inc whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.