Mason Water Dept, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.3 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 Water Dept at a glance
Mason Water Dept serves about 1,679 people through 769 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: WV3302708; phone on file: 304-773-5574. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.4 ppb from 1.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mason Water Dept is 5.3 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.7 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. Mason Water Dept's 5.3 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in West Virginia and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Mason County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Mason Water Dept. 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 |
| 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 |
| Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist | 156 | 3.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mason, 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 Water Dept 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.