Rainelle Water Dept, WV
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 19.2 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Rainelle Water Dept serves about 1,381 people through 692 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 Greenbrier County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3301309; phone on file: 304-438-7191. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Rainelle Water Dept's lead record
That is up 18.24 ppb from 0.96 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rainelle Water Dept is 19.2 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 19.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 0.96 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.51 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.84 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.64 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.97 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.26 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.35 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.89 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.22 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. Rainelle Water Dept's 19.2 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in West Virginia and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Greenbrier County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rainelle Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lewisburg | 12,065 | 3 ppb |
| White Sulphur Springs Water | 3,845 | 0.81 ppb |
| Greenbrier Hotel Corporation | 3,280 | 0.87 ppb |
| Alderson Water | 2,458 | 1.09 ppb |
| Ronceverte Water | 2,091 | 0.68 ppb |
| Greenbrier County Psd 2 | 1,478 | 2.95 ppb |
| Rupert Water | 1,170 | 1.16 ppb |
| Rainelle Water Treatment Plant 2 | 290 | 0.2 ppb |
| Davis Stuart Inc | 100 | 7.1 ppb |
| Renick, Town Of | 79 | - |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Rainelle Water Dept whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1670 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. 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.