Frankfort Psd Wiley Ford, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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 Frankfort Psd Wiley Ford
Frankfort Psd Wiley Ford serves about 1,062 people through 458 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 Mineral County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3302926; phone on file: 304-738-9552. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Frankfort Psd Wiley Ford's lead record
That is down 2.5 ppb from 3.8 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Frankfort Psd Wiley Ford is 5.3 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 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. Frankfort Psd Wiley Ford's 1.3 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in West Virginia and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mineral County
9 other systems share Mineral County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Frankfort Psd Wiley Ford. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Frankfort Psd | 6,747 | 0.98 ppb |
| Keyser City Of | 4,796 | 1.7 ppb |
| New Creek Water Association | 3,163 | 3.7 ppb |
| Fountain Psd | 1,001 | 4.3 ppb |
| Carpendale, Town Of | 937 | 2.6 ppb |
| Piedmont Municipal Wtr Wks | 847 | 9.7 ppb |
| Fountain Psd Burlington | 793 | 1.5 ppb |
| Ridgeley, Town Of | 737 | 0.1 ppb |
| Knobley Water System | 132 | 6.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Ashby, 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 Frankfort Psd Wiley Ford 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.