Mingo County Psd - Pigeon Creek, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.6 ppb (monitoring period 2017-2019). 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.
About Mingo County Psd - Pigeon Creek
Mingo County Psd - Pigeon Creek serves about 2,877 people through 1,251 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws surface water, in Mingo County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3303031; phone on file: 304-235-2244. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 6.7 ppb from 1.9 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mingo County Psd - Pigeon Creek is 8.6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 8.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 ppb |
How Mingo County Psd - Pigeon 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 - Pigeon Creek's 8.6 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in West Virginia and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mingo County
12 other systems share Mingo County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mingo County Psd - Pigeon Creek. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| 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 - Lick Creek | 380 | 2 ppb |
| Mingo County Psd - Marrowbone | 292 | 0 (not detected) |
| Delbarton Town Of | 277 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Naugatuck, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Naugatuck, 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 - Pigeon 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.