Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.7 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist at a glance
Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist serves about 156 people through 63 service connections, which makes it a very 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: WV3302715; phone on file: 304-675-8940. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.3 ppb from 2.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist is 3.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.2 ppb |
How Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist 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. Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist's 3.7 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in West Virginia and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Mason County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist. 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 |
| Gallipolis Ferry | 1,061 | 12.9 ppb |
| Hartford Town Of | 675 | 1.2 ppb |
| Mason County Psd-Camp Conley | 497 | 2.1 ppb |
Next steps for Point Pleasant, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Point Pleasant, 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 Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.