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Is Shady Spring, WV tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Shady Spring, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

1 of the 2 utilities serving Shady Spring has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s records: Cool Ridge Flat Top PSD.

Beckley Water Company, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 22.1 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Shady Spring’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Beckley Water Company’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Water testing near Shady Spring

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 Shady Spring, 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 3 miles

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

  • Analabs, Inc.

    Crab Orchard, WV · about 11 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 54 miles

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

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ZIP codes in Shady Spring

Which ZIP codes are in Shady Spring: 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.

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