What's in WHEELING's water?
WHEELING has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. Population served: 29,899, over 13,185 connections.
WHEELING's record against the rest of the country
WHEELING has 36 violations on record in total, 8 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,372th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 82th percentile nationally.
How WHEELING compares within WV
Among the 135 WV systems in this dataset, the average is 6.4 health-based violations - WHEELING's 8 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for WHEELING is from 2025-01-08 (health-based: 2025-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WHEELING'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
- 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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is WHEELING'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 WHEELING's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,372th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.