Rowlesburg Water Works, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.52 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Rowlesburg Water Works at a glance
Rowlesburg Water Works serves about 680 people through 287 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 Preston County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3303914; phone on file: 304-777-6278. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.18 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rowlesburg Water Works is 3.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.52 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.3 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. Rowlesburg Water Works's 0.52 ppb sits at the 33rd percentile in West Virginia and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Preston County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rowlesburg Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Preston County Psd 4 | 8,753 | 5.2 ppb |
| Kingwood Water Board | 7,674 | 1.5 ppb |
| Masontown Water Works | 2,239 | 0 (not detected) |
| Terra Alta Water Works | 1,856 | 3.1 ppb |
| Tunnelton Town Of | 1,346 | 1 ppb |
| Alpine Lake Public Utilities | 1,325 | 0.54 ppb |
| Newburg Town Of | 1,133 | 0.76 ppb |
| Albright Town Of | 334 | 1 ppb |
| Arthurdale Water Assoc. | 264 | 3.7 ppb |
| Alyeska Inc | 50 | 0.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rowlesburg, 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 Rowlesburg 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.