Little Chippewa Estates, WV
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Little Chippewa Estates at a glance
Little Chippewa Estates serves about 153 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wayne County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: OH8501712; phone on file: 304-291-3380. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Little Chippewa Estates's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Little Chippewa Estates is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
How Little Chippewa Estates 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. Little Chippewa Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in West Virginia and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Wayne County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Little Chippewa Estates. 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) |
| Fort Gay Water Works | 1,600 | 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 |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Little Chippewa Estates'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 Little Chippewa Estates 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.