Wvawc Bluefield District, WV
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Wvawc Bluefield District
Wvawc Bluefield District serves about 12,174 people through 5,077 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Mercer County, West Virginia. EPA system ID: WV3302835; phone on file: 304-347-1510. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Wvawc Bluefield District's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wvawc Bluefield District is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Wvawc Bluefield District 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. Wvawc Bluefield District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in West Virginia and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Mercer County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wvawc Bluefield District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bluewell Psd | 6,216 | 2.6 ppb |
| Athens Town Of | 5,633 | 4.33 ppb |
| Green Valley Glenwood Psd Glenwood | 4,914 | 4.62 ppb |
| Green Valley Glenwood Psd Bulltail | 2,130 | 7.24 ppb |
| Raleigh County Psd Egeria | 200 | 2.15 ppb |
| Pinnacle Water Association | 85 | 1 ppb |
| Hiawatha Water | 63 | - |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Wvawc Bluefield District's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Wvawc Bluefield District 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.