Community Water System · PWSID KY0890106

Drakesboro Water Department

Serves 888 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentDrakesboro, Kentucky
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On record since 1993: 24 violations. 11 over the limit · 5 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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

11Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% 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: 1199520002003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 22005 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052007 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
46% over the limit · 1121% missed or late test · 533% notice or report · 8

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)2024-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0620 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2024-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0620 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2024-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0690 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2024-01-01 · 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×)2018-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0660 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2018-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2017-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0690 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2017-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0640 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2017-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2016-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0630 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0620 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0620 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2024-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0690 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0640 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0660 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0690 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0640 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  18. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2005-10-27Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2005-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  22. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  24. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served888
Service connections287
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityDrakesboro
EPA ZIP on file42337

Areas served

  • Muhlenberg County

Reading this record

Drakesboro Water Department is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 888 people in Drakesboro, 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.