Moorefield Municipal Water, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Moorefield Municipal Water at a glance
Moorefield Municipal Water serves about 2,328 people through 1,275 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 Hardy County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3301601; phone on file: 304-851-2283. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Moorefield Municipal Water's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Moorefield Municipal Water is 1.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.4 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. Moorefield Municipal Water's 1.2 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in West Virginia and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Hardy County
9 other systems share Hardy County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Moorefield Municipal Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hardy County Psd 220 South | 1,463 | 1 ppb |
| Hardy County Psd 220 N | 1,442 | 0.64 ppb |
| Hardy County Psd-Route 55 | 908 | 0.74 ppb |
| Wardensville, Town Of | 788 | 2.2 ppb |
| Hardy County Psd-South Fork | 254 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hardy County Psd-Trout Run | 245 | 1.4 ppb |
| Caledonia Heights Subdivision | 200 | 0.9 ppb |
| Hardy County Psd Baker | 150 | 0.23 ppb |
| Hardy County Psd Marvin Chapel | 90 | 0.8 ppb |
Next steps for Moorefield, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Moorefield, 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 Moorefield Municipal Water 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.