Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2019). 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.
Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek at a glance
Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek serves about 380 people through 168 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 surface water, in Mingo County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3303032; phone on file: 304-235-1626. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.3 ppb from 5.3 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek is 5.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.1 ppb |
How Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek 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. Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek's 2 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in West Virginia and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mingo County
12 other systems share Mingo County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mingo County Psd - Pigeon Creek | 2,877 | 8.6 ppb |
| Williamson Utility Board | 2,660 | 0 (not detected) |
| Matewan Water Works | 2,205 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mingo County Psd - Naugatuck | 2,159 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gilbert Water Works | 1,840 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kermit Water Works | 1,237 | 2 ppb |
| Mingo Co Psd - Ragland District | 621 | 0 (not detected) |
| Justice Psd | 504 | 0.5 ppb |
| Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone | 292 | 0 (not detected) |
| Delbarton Town Of | 277 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Williamson, 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 Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.