Norton Harding Jimtown Psd, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 ppb (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. 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.
Norton Harding Jimtown Psd at a glance
Norton Harding Jimtown Psd serves about 1,632 people through 713 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 Randolph County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3304213; phone on file: 304-636-6223. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 2 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Norton Harding Jimtown Psd is 3.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.1 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. Norton Harding Jimtown Psd's 3.8 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in West Virginia and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Randolph County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Norton Harding Jimtown Psd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elkins City Of | 9,350 | 0.45 ppb |
| Huttonsville Psd | 4,758 | 1.1 ppb |
| Midland Psd | 3,802 | 0.56 ppb |
| Beverly Town Of | 2,268 | 0.36 ppb |
| Leadsville Psd | 1,536 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mill Creek Water Dept | 591 | 0.5 ppb |
| Harman Town Of | 456 | 0.94 ppb |
| Coalton Water System | 262 | 0.26 ppb |
| Whitmer Public Water System | 254 | 0.65 ppb |
| Huttonsville Town Of | 186 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Coalton, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Coalton, 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 Norton Harding Jimtown Psd 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.