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Is Star City, WV tap water safe?

Morgantown Utility Board serves Star City, 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

Morgantown Utility Board serves Star City. In EPA’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 0.38 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.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Morgantown Utility Board’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Star City

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

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Morgantown WV

    Morgantown, WV · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Sturm Environmental Services

    Bridgeport, WV · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Standard Laboratories, Inc Lab 67

    Wheeling, WV · about 47 miles

    Certified for bacteria

All 50 certified labs for West Virginia

ZIP codes in Star City

Which ZIP codes are in Star City: 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 Star City

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

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