Raleigh County Psd Pluto Bragg, WV
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Raleigh County Psd Pluto Bragg at a glance
Raleigh County Psd Pluto Bragg serves about 383 people through 169 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Raleigh County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3304152; phone on file: 304-683-4090. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.73 ppb from 0.47 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Raleigh County Psd Pluto Bragg is 27.2 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.47 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.64 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.96 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.82 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 9.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 8.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 27.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 24.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 5.84 ppb |
| 2017 | 9.34 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. Raleigh County Psd Pluto Bragg's 4.2 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in West Virginia and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Raleigh County
12 other systems share Raleigh County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Raleigh County Psd Pluto Bragg. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Beckley Water Company | 47,386 | 0.63 ppb |
| Raleigh County Psd Arnett | 6,663 | 0.76 ppb |
| Raleigh County Mem Airport | 4,587 | 7.3 ppb |
| Cool Ridge Flat Top Psd | 4,190 | 9.8 ppb |
| Raleigh County Psd Coal City | 3,415 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wvawc Glade Springs District | 1,747 | 0 (not detected) |
| Raleigh County Psd Clear Creek | 1,407 | 0.78 ppb |
| Raleigh County Psd Odd | 813 | 1.26 ppb |
| Lester Municipal Water Works | 665 | 14.1 ppb |
| Raleigh County Psd Slab Fork | 550 | 0.83 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sophia, 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 Raleigh County Psd Pluto Bragg 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.