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Preston County, West Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WV077 · Preston County 75 sys · 4,723 viol · #1324/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 8.5% health
  • RANK-MID #1324/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 88%
  • SYS-MID 75 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Kanawha County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Preston County ranks #1,324 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #17 of 55 counties in West Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Preston County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 8.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,324 of 3,254 · #17 of 55 in West Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Preston County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Preston County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mercer · lowest Boone · highest Cabell · near Monongalia · near 92.3% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Preston County Psd 4 8,753 129 Clean
Kingwood Water Board 6,652 60 Clean
Preston County Psd 1 3,455 576 Clean
Masontown Water Works 2,239 145 -
Terra Alta Water Works 1,856 217 -
Tunnelton Town Of 1,346 82 -
Alpine Lake Public Utilities 1,325 40 -
Newburg Town Of 1,116 28 -
Rowlesburg Water Works 680 437 -
Albright Town Of 317 299 -
Preston Co Psd 1 Purchaser 291 152 -
Arthurdale Water Assoc. 264 599 Clean
Aurora Elementary and JR High 195 94 -
Alyeska Inc 50 25 -
Alyeska Inc 50 15 -
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Compare beyond West Virginia

Mid-flagged peers for Preston County

Cross-state counties nearest Preston County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (4,723). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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