Ministers Run Water Assoc, WV
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Ministers Run Water Assoc at a glance
Ministers Run Water Assoc serves about 351 people through 148 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 Marion County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3302514; phone on file: 304-278-2500. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Ministers Run Water Assoc's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.33 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ministers Run Water Assoc is 1.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.33 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.2 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. Ministers Run Water Assoc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in West Virginia and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Marion County
26 other systems share Marion County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ministers Run Water Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fairmont City Of | 30,586 | 2.3 ppb |
| Valley Falls Psd | 4,042 | 2.08 ppb |
| Monongah Town Of | 3,226 | 1.5 ppb |
| Little Creek Psd | 2,180 | 13.3 ppb |
| Monumental Psd | 1,965 | 0.4 ppb |
| Mannington City Of | 1,946 | 0.72 ppb |
| Tri-County Water Assoc - Fairmont | 1,880 | 1.5 ppb |
| Rivesville Town Of | 1,267 | 0.54 ppb |
| Paw Paw Route 19 Psd | 1,257 | 2.9 ppb |
| Bingamon Psd | 1,179 | 1.2 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Ministers Run Water Assoc'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 Ministers Run Water Assoc 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.