New Haven Water Dept, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
About New Haven Water Dept
New Haven Water Dept serves about 1,649 people through 665 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 groundwater, in Mason County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3302709; phone on file: 304-882-8203. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
New Haven Water Dept's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0.44 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Haven Water Dept is 1.4 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.44 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.25 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.25 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.28 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.82 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.31 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.39 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.2 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. New Haven Water Dept's 1 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in West Virginia and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Mason County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Haven Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Point Pleasant Water Works | 5,146 | 1.7 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd-Lakin Dist | 4,296 | 4.5 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd - Ashton | 3,902 | 3.1 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd-Letart | 3,303 | 4.5 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd-Crab Creek | 2,039 | 1.3 ppb |
| Mason Water Dept | 1,679 | 5.3 ppb |
| Gallipolis Ferry | 1,061 | 12.9 ppb |
| Hartford Town Of | 675 | 1.2 ppb |
| Mason County Psd-Camp Conley | 497 | 2.1 ppb |
| Mason Co Psd-Foglesong Dist | 156 | 3.7 ppb |
Next steps for New Haven, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Haven, 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 New Haven Water Dept 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.