Fenwick Mountain Psd, WV
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.51 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Fenwick Mountain Psd at a glance
Fenwick Mountain Psd serves about 554 people through 225 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Nicholas County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3303406; phone on file: 304-846-9204. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.69 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fenwick Mountain Psd is 23.6 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.51 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.12 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.26 ppb |
| 2021 | 23.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 6.54 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. Fenwick Mountain Psd's 0.51 ppb sits at the 32nd percentile in West Virginia and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Nicholas County
6 other systems share Nicholas County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fenwick Mountain Psd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wilderness Psd | 6,106 | 0.65 ppb |
| Summersville Municipal Water | 5,574 | 0.49 ppb |
| Craigsville Psd | 4,997 | 2.7 ppb |
| Nettie Leivasy Psd | 3,630 | 2.9 ppb |
| Richwood Water Dept | 2,480 | 18.5 ppb |
| Birch River Psd | 1,369 | 0.58 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fenwick, 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 Fenwick Mountain 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.