Community Water System · PWSID KY0690089

Crab Orchard Water District

Serves 1,488 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentCrab Orchard, Kentucky
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On record since 1994: 29 violations. 7 over the limit · 12 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-04-01.

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

7Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 90% 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 1199520002003 · Missed or late test: 120052007 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Over the limit: 52018 · Over the limit: 52018 · Over the limit: 52018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 72018 · Notice or report: 72018 · Notice or report: 72018 · Notice or report: 720202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
24% over the limit · 741% missed or late test · 1234% notice or report · 10

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)Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2018-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0640 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2018-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2018-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0660 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2018-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0730 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2017-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0690 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2017-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0640 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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0640 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2018-06-21Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2018-06-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0660 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2018-03-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2018-03-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2018-01-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  13. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0730 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2018-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0690 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  18. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0640 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  20. 2017-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  21. 2016-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  22. 2016-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  23. 2016-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2015-10-09Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2003-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,488
Service connections655
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCrab Orchard
EPA ZIP on file40419

Areas served

  • Lincoln County

Reading this record

Crab Orchard Water District is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,488 people in Crab Orchard, 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.