Pineville Municipal Water, WV Water Quality
What's in Pineville Municipal Water's water?
Pineville Municipal Water had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 2,162 people through 1,036 service connections.
How this compares nationally
274 total violations and 13 health-based ones put Pineville Municipal Water at the 89th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,407 of 12,903.
How Pineville Municipal Water compares within WV
WV's 162 covered systems average 6.1 health-based violations each; Pineville Municipal Water carries 13, more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Pineville Municipal Water is from 2025-03-12 (health-based: 2024-02-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Pineville Municipal Water'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: Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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 this data is and is not
This is what Pineville Municipal Water reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and Pineville Municipal Water's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,407th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.