Berkeley Co Pswd-Glenwood Forest, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Who runs the water here
Berkeley Co Pswd-Glenwood Forest serves about 1,102 people through 422 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Berkeley County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3300209; phone on file: 304-274-5803. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Berkeley Co Pswd-Glenwood Forest is 9.6 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 9.6 ppb |
Against other West Virginia systems
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. Berkeley Co Pswd-Glenwood Forest's 2 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in West Virginia and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Berkeley County
10 other systems share Berkeley County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Berkeley Co Pswd-Glenwood Forest. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley County Pswd-Potomac River | 69,372 | 0 (not detected) |
| Martinsburg City Of | 16,250 | 2.55 ppb |
| Woods Home Owners Association 2 | 3,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Va Medical Center | 2,175 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rocky Glen Manufactured Housing Communit | 861 | 0 (not detected) |
| G And E Mhp | 235 | 1 ppb |
| Wvaw - Valley Water And Sewer-Deerwood | 219 | 3 ppb |
| Springer Run Park Llc | 150 | 3 ppb |
| Chestnut Ridge Water System | 104 | 7.3 ppb |
| Judy Lynn Mhp | 53 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Martinsburg, 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 Berkeley Co Pswd-Glenwood Forest 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.