Kermit Water Works, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Kermit Water Works at a glance
Kermit Water Works serves about 1,237 people through 513 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 Mingo County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3303003; phone on file: 304-393-3321. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Kermit Water Works's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kermit Water Works is 3.3 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 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. Kermit Water Works's 2 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in West Virginia and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Mingo County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Kermit Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mingo County Psd - Pigeon Creek | 2,877 | 8.6 ppb |
| Williamson Utility Board | 2,660 | 0 (not detected) |
| Matewan Water Works | 2,205 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mingo County Psd - Naugatuck | 2,159 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gilbert Water Works | 1,840 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mingo Co Psd - Ragland District | 621 | 0 (not detected) |
| Justice Psd | 504 | 0.5 ppb |
| Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek | 380 | 2 ppb |
| Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone | 292 | 0 (not detected) |
| Delbarton Town Of | 277 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kermit, 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 Kermit 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.