PADEN CITY, CITY OF

Water Quality Snapshot: PADEN CITY, CITY OF

PADEN CITY, CITY OF is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 3,291 residents in PADEN CITY, West Virginia (Wetzel County) through 1,300 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 654 total violations for this system , of which 96 (15%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 383 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Public Notice, recorded in 147 violations (Other). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

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. PADEN CITY, CITY OF's 654 violations sit above the West Virginia average. Statewide, 46 of 102 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (45.1%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.