Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water, WV
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.24 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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 Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water
Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water serves about 1,867 people through 210 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3303808; phone on file: 304-456-3127. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.16 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water is 22.4 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.24 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.97 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.59 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 22.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0.9 ppb |
How Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water 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. Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water's 0.24 ppb sits at the 21st percentile in West Virginia and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Pocahontas County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marlinton Town Of | 1,930 | 0.94 ppb |
| Cass Scenic Railroad | 555 | 0.53 ppb |
| Pocahontas County Psd | 504 | 9 ppb |
| Denmar Correctional Center | 297 | 0.48 ppb |
| Hillsboro Town Of | 239 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Durbin, 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 Pocahontas Co Psd - Cheat Mountain Water 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.