Pleasant Hill P S D Rt 16 District, WV
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Pleasant Hill P S D Rt 16 District
Pleasant Hill P S D Rt 16 District serves about 1,868 people through 721 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 Calhoun County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3300703; phone on file: 304-514-3294. 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 down 1.3 ppb from 2.4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pleasant Hill P S D Rt 16 District is 17.2 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.84 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 17.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.7 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. Pleasant Hill P S D Rt 16 District's 1.1 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in West Virginia and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
2 other systems share Calhoun County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Pleasant Hill P S D Rt 16 District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Zion P S D | 1,163 | 2.3 ppb |
| Grantsville Municipal | 880 | 0.49 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Big Bend, 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 Pleasant Hill P S D Rt 16 District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3820 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.