Mcdowell County Psd Hemphill, WV
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.89 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Mcdowell County Psd Hemphill at a glance
Mcdowell County Psd Hemphill serves about 322 people through 123 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Mcdowell County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3302441; phone on file: 304-297-2622. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mcdowell County Psd Hemphill is 20.9 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.89 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 20.9 ppb over 15 |
How Mcdowell County Psd Hemphill 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. Mcdowell County Psd Hemphill's 1.89 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in West Virginia and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mcdowell County
19 other systems share Mcdowell County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mcdowell County Psd Hemphill. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Welch City Of | 2,907 | 1.17 ppb |
| Mcdowell County Psd Bartley | 2,242 | 0.48 ppb |
| Mcdowell County Psd Maybeury | 1,648 | 1.2 ppb |
| Gary City Of | 1,633 | 1.54 ppb |
| Mcdowell County Psd Coalwood | 1,537 | 0.59 ppb |
| War Water Works City Realty | 1,220 | 3.9 ppb |
| Mcdowell County Psd Berwind | 692 | 0.4 ppb |
| Mcdowell County Psd Kimball | 432 | 0.48 ppb |
| Mcdowell County Psd Havaco | 370 | 1.31 ppb |
| Mcdowell County Psd-Big Four | 363 | 0.43 ppb |
Next steps for Welch, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Welch, 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 Mcdowell County Psd Hemphill whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1350 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.