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Is Oak Hill, WV tap water safe?

Wvawc New River Regional WTR Trtmt Plt serves Oak Hill, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Wvawc New River Regional WTR Trtmt Plt serves Oak Hill. In EPA’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Uranium at 0.45 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

Water testing near Oak Hill

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab West Virginia certifies.

The 3 labs West Virginia certifies closest to Oak Hill, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Beaver

    Beaver, WV · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, radioactivity

  • Analabs, Inc.

    Crab Orchard, WV · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

  • West Virginia Dept. of Health - Office of Lab Services, Chemistry

    Charleston, WV · about 38 miles

    Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

All 50 certified labs for West Virginia

ZIP codes in Oak Hill

Which ZIP codes are in Oak Hill: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: West Virginia Office of Laboratory Services, laboratory certified parameter list; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Oak Hill

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