Follansbee Municipal, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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 Follansbee Municipal
Follansbee Municipal serves about 3,145 people through 1,423 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 groundwater, in Brooke County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3300506; phone on file: 304-527-1330. 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 2025 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Follansbee Municipal is 4.7 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.7 ppb |
How Follansbee Municipal compares
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. Follansbee Municipal's 1.5 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in West Virginia and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Brooke County
7 other systems share Brooke County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Follansbee Municipal. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Weirton Area Water Board | 19,676 | 0.74 ppb |
| Follansbee Hooverson Heights | 4,970 | 1.5 ppb |
| Wellsburg, City Of | 4,019 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington Pike Psd | 2,967 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hammond Psd | 2,186 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beech Bottom Water Dept | 610 | 0.33 ppb |
| Brooke County Psd | 240 | 0.41 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Follansbee, 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 Follansbee Municipal 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.