Glen Dale Water Works, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Glen Dale Water Works serves about 2,495 people through 1,070 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 Marshall County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3302605; phone on file: 304-845-5511. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0.72 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Glen Dale Water Works is 1.3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.72 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.72 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.59 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Glen Dale Water Works's 1.3 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in West Virginia and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Marshall County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Glen Dale Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moundsville | 9,911 | 0.64 ppb |
| Marshall County Psd 4 | 4,063 | 3.1 ppb |
| Marshall County Psd 1 | 3,463 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marshall County Psd 3 | 2,694 | 0.62 ppb |
| Mcmechen Municipal Water | 2,212 | 1 ppb |
| Marshall County Psd 2 | 1,601 | 2 ppb |
| Benwood Water Department | 1,510 | 0.69 ppb |
| Cameron Water | 962 | 5.6 ppb |
Next steps for Glen Dale, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glen Dale, 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 Glen Dale 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.