Camden On Gauley - Craigsville, WV
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Camden On Gauley - Craigsville
Camden On Gauley - Craigsville serves about 502 people through 179 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 surface water, in Webster County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3305102; phone on file: 304-742-5280. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Camden On Gauley - Craigsville's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0.32 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Camden On Gauley - Craigsville is 1.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0.32 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.68 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.31 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Camden On Gauley - Craigsville's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in West Virginia and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
2 other systems share Webster County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Camden On Gauley - Craigsville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cowen Psd | 3,098 | 1.6 ppb |
| Camden On Gauley - Cowen | 79 | 0.44 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Camden On Gauley - Craigsville's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Camden On Gauley - Craigsville 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.