Wetzel Co Psd 1, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 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.
About Wetzel Co Psd 1
Wetzel Co Psd 1 serves about 1,378 people through 611 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wetzel County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3305207; phone on file: 304-386-4870. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Wetzel Co Psd 1's lead record
That is up 1.11 ppb from 0.79 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wetzel Co Psd 1 is 1.9 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.79 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.37 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Wetzel Co Psd 1's 1.9 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in West Virginia and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Wetzel County
5 other systems share Wetzel County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wetzel Co Psd 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Martinsville | 5,272 | 0.9 ppb |
| Paden City, City Of | 3,291 | 1.6 ppb |
| Grandview - Doolin Psd | 1,942 | 5.6 ppb |
| Hundred Littleton Psd | 638 | 4.6 ppb |
| Pine Grove Water | 620 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Reader, 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 Wetzel Co Psd 1 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.