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Water hardness in Brenton

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Matched utilities: 2
Active health records: 2

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EPA snapshot: 2026Q2. Historical window begins Jan 1, 2021.

Brenton Psd

WV3305504 · Groundwater · 241 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

2 reported active health-based record(s) for this system

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Measurements (3)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level

Reported level: 0 mg/L
Action level: 0.015 mg/L

0% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025

Copper (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Above action level

Reported level: 1.46 mg/L
Action level: 1.3 mg/L

112% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 1994 to Jun 30, 1994

Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)

EPA SDWIS reported health-based violation

Reported violation

Reported level: 94 UG/L
Maximum contaminant level: 0.06 UG/L

156667% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jul 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024

Violation history (96)

Imported violation history for Brenton Psd
Rule	Status	Period
Public Notice	Unaddressed	Feb 13, 2026
Public Notice	Unaddressed	Feb 13, 2026
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Archived	Oct 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025
TTHM	Archived	Oct 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025
TTHM	Archived	Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Archived	Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025
TTHM	Archived	Apr 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Archived	Apr 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Archived	Jan 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
TTHM	Archived	Jan 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
Lead and Copper Rule	Resolved	Dec 30, 2024 to Oct 9, 2025
Public Notice	Resolved	Oct 21, 2024 to Dec 11, 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Archived	Oct 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024
TTHM	Archived	Oct 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Health-based	Resolved	Jul 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024
Groundwater Rule	Resolved	Apr 1, 2024 to Apr 30, 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Archived	Apr 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2024
TTHM	Archived	Apr 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2024
Public Notice	Resolved	Feb 12, 2024 to Mar 5, 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Archived	Jan 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2024
TTHM	Archived	Jan 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2024
Revised Total Coliform RuleHealth-based	Resolved	Nov 22, 2023 to Dec 7, 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Archived	Oct 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023
TTHM	Archived	Oct 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023
Consumer Confidence Rule	Resolved	Oct 1, 2023 to Dec 15, 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Unaddressed	Sep 29, 2023
Groundwater RuleHealth-based	Unaddressed	Sep 1, 2023
Groundwater Rule	Resolved	Sep 1, 2023 to Sep 30, 2023
Public Notice	Resolved	Jul 30, 2023 to Mar 5, 2024
Public Notice	Resolved	Jul 16, 2023 to Aug 9, 2023
Consumer Confidence Rule	Resolved	Jul 1, 2023 to Aug 11, 2023
Public Notice	Resolved	May 10, 2023 to Jun 8, 2023
Groundwater RuleHealth-based	Unaddressed	May 1, 2023
Public Notice	Resolved	Apr 27, 2023 to Jun 8, 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Health-based	Resolved	Apr 1, 2023 to Jun 30, 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Resolved	Jan 1, 2023 to Mar 31, 2023
TTHM	Resolved	Jan 1, 2023 to Mar 31, 2023
Arsenic	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
OXAMYL	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Simazine	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Carbofuran	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Atrazine	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
LASSO	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Heptachlor epoxide	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
2,4-D	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Benzo(a)pyrene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Cadmium	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Fluoride	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Antimony, Total	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Beryllium, Total	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Thallium, Total	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Chromium	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
CYANIDE	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Nickel	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Mercury	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Heptachlor	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Barium	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Chlordane	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Selenium	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Methoxychlor	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Picloram	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
BHC-GAMMA	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Public Notice	Resolved	Dec 2, 2022 to Jun 8, 2023
Groundwater RuleHealth-based	Resolved	Oct 1, 2022 to Oct 31, 2022
Groundwater Rule	Resolved	Sep 3, 2022 to Nov 22, 2022
Public Notice	Resolved	Aug 19, 2022 to Jun 8, 2023
Public Notice	Resolved	Aug 12, 2022 to Mar 30, 2022
Public Notice	Resolved	May 14, 2022 to Mar 30, 2022
Public Notice	Resolved	May 14, 2022 to Mar 30, 2022
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Resolved	Apr 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2022
TTHM	Resolved	Apr 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2022
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Health-based	Resolved	Apr 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2022
Public Notice	Resolved	Feb 10, 2022 to Mar 30, 2022
Lead and Copper Rule	Resolved	Dec 30, 2021 to Dec 15, 2025
Public Notice	Resolved	Dec 4, 2021 to Mar 30, 2022
TTHM	Resolved	Dec 1, 2021 to Feb 28, 2022
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Resolved	Dec 1, 2021 to Feb 28, 2022
Lead and Copper Rule	Addressed	Oct 1, 2021
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Resolved	Sep 1, 2021 to Nov 30, 2021
TTHM	Resolved	Sep 1, 2021 to Nov 30, 2021
Chlorine	Resolved	Jul 1, 2021 to Sep 30, 2021
TTHM	Resolved	Jul 1, 2021 to Sep 30, 2021
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Resolved	Jul 1, 2021 to Sep 30, 2021
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)	Archived	Mar 1, 2021 to May 31, 2021
Public Notice	Resolved	Feb 14, 2021 to Mar 30, 2022
Public Notice	Resolved	Feb 13, 2021 to Mar 30, 2022
Public Notice	Resolved	Jan 14, 2021 to Mar 30, 2022
Nitrate	Resolved	Jan 1, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021
Nitrite	Resolved	Jan 1, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021
Lead and Copper Rule	Addressed	Dec 30, 2020
Lead and Copper Rule	Addressed	Jan 1, 2020
Lead and Copper Rule	Addressed	Jan 1, 2017

Green Camp Psd

WV3305532 · Groundwater · 44 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

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Measurements (1)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level

Reported level: 0 mg/L
Action level: 0.015 mg/L

0% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023

Violation history (14)

Imported violation history for Green Camp Psd
Rule	Status	Period
Revised Total Coliform Rule	Resolved	Oct 1, 2025 to Oct 31, 2025
Chlorine	Archived	Oct 1, 2025 to Oct 31, 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule	Resolved	May 1, 2025 to May 31, 2025
Chlorine	Resolved	May 1, 2025 to May 31, 2025
Groundwater Rule	Resolved	Feb 1, 2025 to Feb 28, 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule	Resolved	Sep 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024
Chlorine	Resolved	Sep 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024
Consumer Confidence Rule	Resolved	Jul 1, 2023 to Aug 11, 2023
Groundwater Rule	Resolved	Jun 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2022
Lead and Copper Rule	Resolved	Dec 30, 2021 to Sep 30, 2021
Lead and Copper Rule	Addressed	Jan 1, 2020
Public Notice	Addressed	Nov 16, 2019
Consumer Confidence Rule	Addressed	Oct 1, 2019
Consumer Confidence Rule	Addressed	Oct 1, 2012

City summary

What the indexed records say

Brenton has 1 published ZIP profile across Wyoming County. The regional-evidence median is 93 PPM. The city does not meet the stricter comparison standard.

Because only one ZIP is represented, the city median and range are the same local estimate. It should not be read as multiple independent samples across the community. At least one estimate is marked low confidence, so observation distance and date deserve extra attention.

Hardness distribution

How local ZIP estimates compare

Soft0 ZIPs

Moderately hard1 ZIP

Hard0 ZIPs

Very hard0 ZIPs

1 of 1 ZIP profiles have a hardness estimate. Bars count ZIP profiles, not households or laboratory samples.

Evidence quality

Distance, dates, and confidence

Median nearest distance: 1.9 miles
Profiles with evidence: 1/1

Confidence labels

High: 0Moderate: 0Low: 1

Observation window: Jul 12, 2016 to Jul 19, 2017.

ZIP directory

Water reports in Brenton

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ZIP code

24818

Moderately Hard

93 PPM

Nearest site: 1.9 mi
Confidence: Low

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Practical next steps

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Questions people ask

About water in Brenton

Is the water hard?

Check the utility-reported result above when available. Nearby environmental samples cannot establish tap-water hardness. Ask your provider or test your tap.

Is the tap water safe?

Compliance history is utility-wide and cannot guarantee conditions at every tap. Check current notices and test when address-specific evidence is needed.

Do I need treatment?

Choose treatment only after confirming the problem at the property. A softener targets hardness; contaminant treatment requires a matching, verified performance claim.