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Is Weirton, WV tap water safe?

Weirton Area Water Board serves Weirton, 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

Weirton Area Water Board serves Weirton. In EPA’s records it has 1 result above the legal limit, 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal, and 6 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 75.7 ppb, above the legal limit.

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 Weirton Area Water Board’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Weirton

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

  • Standard Laboratories, Inc Lab 67

    Wheeling, WV · about 25 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • Microbac Laboratories Inc., Pittsburgh Division

    Warrendale, PA · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics

  • Pace Analytical Services LLC - Greensburg PA

    Greensburg, PA · about 54 miles

    Certified for radioactivity

All 50 certified labs for West Virginia

ZIP codes in Weirton

Which ZIP codes are in Weirton: 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 Weirton

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