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Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone, WV

Lead reported as not detected

Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.

About Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone

Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone serves about 292 people through 127 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: WV3303033; phone on file: 304-235-2244. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Lead results over time

That is down 2.8 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone is 2.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20190 (not detected)
20172.8 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. Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in West Virginia and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.

Neighbouring systems

12 other systems share Mingo County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Mingo County Psd - Pigeon Creek2,8778.6 ppb
Williamson Utility Board2,6600 (not detected)
Matewan Water Works2,2050 (not detected)
Mingo County Psd - Naugatuck2,1590 (not detected)
Gilbert Water Works1,8400 (not detected)
Kermit Water Works1,2372 ppb
Mingo Co Psd - Ragland District6210 (not detected)
Justice Psd5040.5 ppb
Mingo County Psd - Lick Creek3802 ppb
Delbarton Town Of2770 (not detected)

Next steps for Naugatuck, WV

Look up your address in Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. 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 - Marrowbone 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.