Drinking water quality · 2022
· PWSID WV3304115
What's in Lester Municipal Water Works, WV tap water
Only 1 of 27 core regulated contaminants were reported for Lester Municipal Water Works, WV. What was measured is clean — but most of the picture is missing.
- !1 open health-based violation on the federal record
- !1 contaminant within 20% of a limit
- !1 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 26 never appear in this report
- ✓Nothing over a federal limit
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −0 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −4 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −15 open health-based violations
- −9 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −6 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −28 core regulated contaminants never reported (1/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →What to worry about
- Lead94% of the federal limit0.0141 mg/L · limit 0.015 mg/L
There is no safe level of lead; it harms brain development in children and raises blood pressure in adults. The EPA sets an action level, not a health goal above zero.
Higher than 95% of WV systems that report it · higher than 95% of U.S. systems
What this report doesn't tell you
26 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Lester Municipal Water Works, WV's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record
Compliance history
Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.
- Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based9 violations on record · most recent Oct 2025resolved
- Treatment technique violationHealth-based1 violation on record · most recent Jun 20241 open
- Other9 violations on record · most recent Nov 20259 open
- Monitoring & reporting3 violations on record · most recent Dec 20253 open
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗