Whitmer Public Water System, WV
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.65 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 Whitmer Public Water System
Whitmer Public Water System serves about 254 people through 98 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 groundwater, in Randolph County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3304216; phone on file: 681-298-5200. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whitmer Public Water System is 4 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.65 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.3 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. Whitmer Public Water System's 0.65 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in West Virginia and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Randolph County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Whitmer Public Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elkins City Of | 9,350 | 0.45 ppb |
| Huttonsville Psd | 4,758 | 1.1 ppb |
| Midland Psd | 3,802 | 0.56 ppb |
| Beverly Town Of | 2,268 | 0.36 ppb |
| Norton Harding Jimtown Psd | 1,632 | 3.8 ppb |
| Leadsville Psd | 1,536 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mill Creek Water Dept | 591 | 0.5 ppb |
| Harman Town Of | 456 | 0.94 ppb |
| Coalton Water System | 262 | 0.26 ppb |
| Huttonsville Town Of | 186 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Valley Head, 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 Whitmer Public Water System 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.