Fort Gay Water Works, WV
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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 Fort Gay Water Works
Fort Gay Water Works serves about 1,600 people through 618 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 Wayne County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3305004; phone on file: 304-645-5246. 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 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Gay Water Works is 2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Fort Gay Water Works 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. Fort Gay Water Works's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in West Virginia and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Wayne County
8 other systems share Wayne County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Gay Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kenova Municipal Water | 11,192 | 3.1 ppb |
| Lavalette Psd | 7,455 | 0.88 ppb |
| Wayne Water Town Of | 5,519 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crum Psd | 3,463 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ceredo Water Works | 1,472 | 0.8 ppb |
| Lavalette Psd - Eastern District | 1,220 | 1.1 ppb |
| Lavalette Psd-Route 52 North District | 1,179 | 0.42 ppb |
| Little Chippewa Estates | 153 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Fort Gay Water Works'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 Fort Gay Water Works 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.