Berkeley Sprgs Healthcare Center - Upper, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.11 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
About Berkeley Sprgs Healthcare Center - Upper
Berkeley Sprgs Healthcare Center - Upper serves about 140 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Morgan County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3303313; phone on file: 304-258-3673. 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 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Berkeley Sprgs Healthcare Center - Upper is 0.29 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.11 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.29 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.29 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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 Sprgs Healthcare Center - Upper's 0.11 ppb sits at the 19th percentile in West Virginia and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Morgan County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Berkeley Sprgs Healthcare Center - Upper. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Springs City Of | 3,526 | 3.5 ppb |
| Paw Paw Water Works | 524 | 3.1 ppb |
| Berkeley Sprgs Healthcare Center - Lower | 140 | 0.55 ppb |
| Tri Lake Holdings, Inc. | 139 | 0.7 ppb |
| Morgan Village Mhp | 98 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wvaw - Apple Orchard Acres | 91 | 0 (not detected) |
| Berkeley Springs Mhc | 69 | 6.2 ppb |
Next steps for Berkeley Springs, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Berkeley Springs, 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 Sprgs Healthcare Center - Upper 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.