Community Water System · PWSID KY0850115

Edmonton Water Works

Serves 8,515 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentEdmonton, Kentucky
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On record since 2004: 13 violations. 8 over the limit · 1 missed or late test · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2017-10-01.

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

8Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 66% 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

2004 · Notice or report: 120052010 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 420202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
62% over the limit · 88% missed or late test · 131% notice or report · 4

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)2017-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0760 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.3×)2017-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0740 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2017-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0710 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2017-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0750 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2016-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0660 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2016-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0690 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2015-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)
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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0760 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0740 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0710 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0750 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0660 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0690 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2015-10-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  11. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  12. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served8,515
Service connections3,541
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityEdmonton
EPA ZIP on file42129

Areas served

  • Metcalfe County

Reading this record

Edmonton Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 8,515 people in Edmonton, 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.