Beckley Water Company

Water Quality Snapshot: Beckley Water Company

Beckley Water Company is a private-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 47,386 residents in Beckley, West Virginia (Raleigh County) through 22,514 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 49 total violations for this system , of which 32 (65%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 5 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2015.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5), recorded in 32 violations (MCL, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across West Virginia, EPA tracks 774 public water systems serving 1,597,057 people, with 187,590 cumulative violations and 11,480 health-based violations on record. About 99% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 242.4 violations. Statewide, 46 of 102 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (45.1%).

Beckley Water Company's 49 violations sit below the West Virginia average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.