Community Water System · PWSID KY0470393

Hardin County Water District #1

Serves 30,230 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentRadcliff, Kentucky
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On record since 1999: 2 violations. 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2004-07-01.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 11% 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

1999 · Notice or report: 120002004 · Notice or report: 120052010201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 2

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

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

4 ppb
3 ppb
3 ppb
2 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served30,230
Service connections11,238
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityRadcliff
EPA ZIP on file40601

Areas served

  • Hardin County

Reading this record

Hardin County Water District #1 is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 30,230 people in Radcliff, 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.