Elkins Road Psd, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.62 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Elkins Road Psd at a glance
Elkins Road Psd serves about 2,890 people through 1,251 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 Upshur County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3304909; phone on file: 304-472-3008. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.36 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elkins Road Psd is 0.75 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.62 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.36 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.36 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.75 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.75 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. Elkins Road Psd's 0.62 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in West Virginia and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Upshur County
6 other systems share Upshur County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elkins Road Psd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Buckhannon Water Board | 8,098 | 0.86 ppb |
| Adrian P S D | 5,327 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Hope Water Assoc | 2,870 | 0.96 ppb |
| Hodgesville Psd Rt 20 | 2,161 | 0.46 ppb |
| Hodgesville Psd Lorentz System | 376 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hodgesville Psd - Sauls Run | 151 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Buckhannon, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Buckhannon, 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 Elkins Road Psd 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.