Mill Creek Water Dept, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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.
Who runs the water here
Mill Creek Water Dept serves about 591 people through 247 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 Randolph County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3304209; phone on file: 304-940-0848. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0.75 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mill Creek Water Dept is 6.7 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.75 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.49 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
Against other West Virginia systems
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. Mill Creek Water Dept's 0.5 ppb sits at the 32nd percentile in West Virginia and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Randolph County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mill Creek Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elkins City Of | 9,350 | 0.45 ppb |
| Huttonsville Psd | 4,758 | 1.1 ppb |
| Midland Psd | 3,802 | 0.56 ppb |
| Beverly Town Of | 2,268 | 0.36 ppb |
| Norton Harding Jimtown Psd | 1,632 | 3.8 ppb |
| Leadsville Psd | 1,536 | 1.4 ppb |
| Harman Town Of | 456 | 0.94 ppb |
| Coalton Water System | 262 | 0.26 ppb |
| Whitmer Public Water System | 254 | 0.65 ppb |
| Huttonsville Town Of | 186 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mill Creek, 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 Mill Creek 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.