Corporation Of Harpers Ferry, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Corporation Of Harpers Ferry at a glance
Corporation Of Harpers Ferry serves about 2,122 people through 866 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 Jefferson County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3301912. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (2.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Corporation Of Harpers Ferry is 2.9 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.7 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. Corporation Of Harpers Ferry's 2.9 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in West Virginia and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Jefferson County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Corporation Of Harpers Ferry. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Town Utilities | 15,220 | 0.6 ppb |
| Wvaw - Walnut Grove Utilities | 7,250 | 3 ppb |
| Corporation Of Shepherdstown | 4,300 | 1.7 ppb |
| Wvaw - The Mountain Water System | 976 | 1 ppb |
| Charles Town Utl-Glen Haven Utilities | 195 | 3 ppb |
| Wvaw - Deerfield Village Subdivision | 132 | 2 ppb |
| Wvaw - Cave Quarter Utility | 126 | 1 ppb |
| Charles Town Utl-Cavaland Subdivision | 107 | 2 ppb |
| Leights Mhp | 78 | 0.7 ppb |
| Russells Mhp | 75 | 1 ppb |
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 Corporation Of Harpers Ferry 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.