Bethlehem, WV Water Quality
What's in Bethlehem's water?
Bethlehem has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,968, over 1,285 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Bethlehem ranks 3,094th by violation burden (76th percentile) - 21 violations total, 6 health-based.
Against the WV average
Bethlehem's 6 health-based violations sit within the WV average of 6.1, across 162 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Bethlehem's most recent violation on record is dated 2026-01-02, with the most recent health-based one dated 2017-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
Bethlehem's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Tthm
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What Bethlehem's record does not cover
Everything on this page is Bethlehem's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and Bethlehem's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,094th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.