Gallipolis Ferry, WV
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12.9 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Gallipolis Ferry serves about 1,061 people through 439 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 Mason County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3302703; phone on file: 304-675-1477. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Gallipolis Ferry's lead record
That is up 11.1 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gallipolis Ferry is 12.9 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 12.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Gallipolis Ferry's 12.9 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in West Virginia and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Mason County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gallipolis Ferry. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Point Pleasant Water Works | 5,146 | 1.7 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd-Lakin Dist | 4,296 | 4.5 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd - Ashton | 3,902 | 3.1 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd-Letart | 3,303 | 4.5 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd-Crab Creek | 2,039 | 1.3 ppb |
| Mason Water Dept | 1,679 | 5.3 ppb |
| New Haven Water Dept | 1,649 | 1 ppb |
| Hartford Town Of | 675 | 1.2 ppb |
| Mason County Psd-Camp Conley | 497 | 2.1 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist | 156 | 3.7 ppb |
Next steps for Gallipolis, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gallipolis, 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 Gallipolis Ferry 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.