Rupert Water, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.16 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. 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.
Rupert Water at a glance
Rupert Water serves about 1,170 people through 517 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: WV3301311; phone on file: 304-392-5682. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0.61 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rupert Water is 11.9 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.16 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.61 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.24 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.24 ppb |
| 2019 | 11.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 11.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 6.2 ppb |
How Rupert 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. Rupert Water's 1.16 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in West Virginia and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Greenbrier County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rupert Water. 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 |
| Rainelle Water Dept | 1,381 | 19.2 ppb |
| Rainelle Water Treatment Plant 2 | 290 | 0.2 ppb |
| Davis Stuart Inc | 100 | 7.1 ppb |
| Renick, Town Of | 79 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rupert, 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 Rupert 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.