Oceana Community Of, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.56 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Oceana Community Of at a glance
Oceana Community Of serves about 3,796 people through 1,575 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Wyoming County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3305516; phone on file: 304-682-6231. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Oceana Community Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.21 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oceana Community Of is 1.21 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.56 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.21 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.27 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.35 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.5 ppb |
How Oceana Community Of 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. Oceana Community Of's 0.56 ppb sits at the 36th percentile in West Virginia and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Wyoming County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oceana Community Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ravencliff Mcgraws Saulsville Psd | 3,967 | 1.13 ppb |
| Eastern Wyoming Psd Stephenson Wtp | 3,616 | 0.65 ppb |
| Pineville Municipal Water | 2,162 | 0.47 ppb |
| Oakwood Lake Village Mhp | 273 | 19 ppb |
| Brenton Psd | 241 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coal Mountain Water | 80 | - |
| Green Camp Psd | 44 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Oceana, WV
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Oceana, 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 Oceana Community Of 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.