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McDowell County, WV drinking water systems

17 community water systems serve McDowell County, WV, reporting 14,384 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

16 of them (94%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 13 systems still have one unresolved.

15 rely mainly on groundwater and 2 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

14 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 0 lead lines, 0 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 152 lines of unknown material.

3 more systems are placed in McDowell County, WV by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
17
People served, sum of each system's own figure
14,384
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
16
Systems with one unresolved
13
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving McDowell County

17 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
City of Welch Welch and land outside it 2,907 Groundwater 5 1 0
McDowell County PSD Bartley Raysal and Bartley 2,242 Groundwater under direct influence 7 5 No inventory
McDowell County PSD Maybeury Maybeury and land outside it 1,648 Groundwater 8 11 No inventory
City of Gary Gary and land outside it 1,633 Groundwater 27 61 0
McDowell County PSD Coalwood Outside cities and towns 1,537 Groundwater 4 7 0
War Water Works City Realty War 1,220 Groundwater 2 8 0
McDowell County PSD Berwind Cucumber and Berwind 692 Groundwater under direct influence 5 5 0
McDowell County PSD Kimball Kimball and Welch 432 Groundwater 3 6 0
McDowell County PSD Havaco Welch 370 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
McDowell County PSD-Big Four Kimball and Welch 363 Groundwater 1 0 No inventory
Davy Municipal Water Works Davy and land outside it 332 Groundwater 5 1 0
McDowell County PSD Hemphill Welch 322 Purchased groundwater 2 1 0
Crumpler Community Water Crumpler 170 Groundwater 3 0 0
McDowell County PSD Bradshaw Bradshaw 163 Groundwater 1 2 0
McDowell County PSD Premier Outside cities and towns 122 Purchased groundwater 19 0 0
McDowell County PSD Eckman Keystone 118 Groundwater 2 3 0
McDowell County PSD Tidewater Vivian 113 Groundwater 2 3 0

Systems placed by county record in McDowell County

3 systems

EPA has no service area map for some of these systems, and the maps it has for the others do not line up with their own records. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
McDowell County PSD Greenbrier County on record 165 Groundwater 9 14 0
McDowell County PSD Bishop County on record 50 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Ashland Community County on record 32 Groundwater 2 0 0

Cities and towns in McDowell County

14 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations