Point Pleasant Water Works, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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.
Who runs the water here
Point Pleasant Water Works serves about 5,146 people through 2,333 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 groundwater, in Mason County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3302710; phone on file: 304-675-2360. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Point Pleasant Water Works's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Point Pleasant Water Works is 6.8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 6.8 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. Point Pleasant Water Works's 1.7 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in West Virginia and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mason County
10 other systems share Mason County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Point Pleasant Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| New Haven Water Dept | 1,649 | 1 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pt. Pleasant, 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 Point Pleasant Water Works 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.