🚧 Beta — under construction. Readings are provisional and shown for community awareness, not regulatory use.
West Virginia's water
Where our rivers and drinking water stand right now. Pick a measure — each dot is
colored by that site's most recent sample, not an average. USGS stream gauges
update continuously; Water Quality Portal lab samples (metals, bacteria, sulfate…) are
periodic, so each marker carries its own sample date. New to this? See
Learn: drinking water, swimming, fish & health →.
This is the crisis behind the headlines — WV has the nation's
worst rate of health-based drinking-water violations, concentrated in the southern coalfields. Every
public water system and whether it has a Safe Drinking Water Act violation, from
EPA ECHO / SDWIS. Bubbles are sized by
the number of systems in violation per county (placed at the county center).
Bubble size = systems with a health-based violation · ● darker = higher share · click a county to filter
System
County
Serves
Source
Violation
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Sources: USGS NWIS real-time gauges (flow, gage height, and some pH / oxygen /
conductivity / turbidity) and the Water Quality Portal (EPA/USGS lab & grab samples — E. coli,
metals like iron/aluminum/manganese, sulfate, nitrate, TDS — across hundreds of sites). Portal
samples are periodic, not live, so each marker shows its latest-sample date. All data is
provisional; thresholds shown are general aquatic-life / secondary standards, not a
drinking-water determination.
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measured — a maintainer reviews anything before it's treated as verified or tied to a named source.
