Community Water System · PWSID KY0070729

Bell County Forestry Camp

Serves 275 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentPineville, Kentucky
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On record since 1993: 22 violations. 5 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-07-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test
13Notice or report

More violations on record than 84% of active water systems in Kentucky. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1993 · Missed or late test: 119951996 · Missed or late test: 11997 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Notice or report: 12000 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Notice or report: 22001 · Notice or report: 22005 · Notice or report: 22005 · Notice or report: 220052006 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 120152018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
23% over the limit · 518% missed or late test · 459% notice or report · 13

Across Kentucky, 52% of violations are missed or late tests and 13% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2021-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0730 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2021-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0680 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2020-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2018-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0640 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2018-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

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Every violation on record

  1. 2021-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0730 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2021-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0680 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0640 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2012-12-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2012-01-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2005-10-27Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 2005-10-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2000-01-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  19. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 1997-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  22. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served275
Service connections14
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPineville
EPA ZIP on file40977

Areas served

  • Bell County

Reading this record

Bell County Forestry Camp is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 275 people in Pineville, Kentucky. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.