Mountain Top Psd, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
Who runs the water here
Mountain Top Psd serves about 2,072 people through 938 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 Grant County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3301205; phone on file: 304-693-7667. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mountain Top Psd is 5.1 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Mountain Top Psd 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. Mountain Top Psd's 2 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in West Virginia and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Grant County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Mountain Top Psd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Grant Co Psd-Northfork-Maysville | 4,829 | 1.8 ppb |
| Petersburg Town Of | 2,841 | 1 ppb |
| Grant Co Psd-Us 220 S | 1,865 | 1.5 ppb |
| Grant County Psd Welton Orchard | 229 | 6.9 ppb |
Next steps for Mount Storm, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mount Storm, 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 Mountain Top Psd whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1520 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.