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Is Sophia, WV tap water safe?

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

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Neither of the 2 utilities serving Sophia has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s records.

Raleigh County PSD Coal City, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 0.12 ppb, above the health goal. 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 Sophia’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 Raleigh County PSD Coal City’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Sophia

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 Sophia, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Analabs, Inc.

    Crab Orchard, WV · about 2 miles

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

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Beaver

    Beaver, WV · about 10 miles

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

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

    Charleston, WV · about 51 miles

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

All 50 certified labs for West Virginia

ZIP codes in Sophia

Which ZIP codes are in Sophia: 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 Sophia

Other towns in Raleigh County with a page of their own.

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