Community Water System · PWSID WV3300609

Milton Water

Serves 5,446 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentAshland, Kentucky
Nothing open that measures the water, but 15 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2006: 80 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 56 missed or late tests · 23 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-02-15.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
56Missed or late test3 open
23Notice or report12 open

More violations on record than 99% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 320152018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 132018 · Missed or late test: 132018 · Missed or late test: 132018 · Missed or late test: 132018 · Missed or late test: 132018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322023 · Missed or late test: 322024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 112025 · Notice or report: 112025 · Notice or report: 112025 · Notice or report: 112025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% treatment lapse · 170% missed or late test · 5629% notice or report · 23

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.6 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.4 ppb
0.8 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (15)

  1. 2025-02-15Public Notice ×11PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2018-12-30Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  4. 2018-12-30Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  5. 2014-12-30Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-02-15Public Notice ×11PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2023-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2023-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2023-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2023-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2023-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2023-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2023-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2023-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2023-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2023-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2023-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2023-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2023-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2023-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2023-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 43 entries
  1. 2023-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-02-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2019-11-01CryptosporidiumMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  17. 2019-09-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2019-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2019-08-14Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2018-12-30Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  22. 2018-12-30Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  23. 2018-09-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2018-08-08DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  25. 2018-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  26. 2018-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  27. 2018-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  28. 2018-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  29. 2018-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  30. 2018-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  31. 2018-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  32. 2018-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  33. 2018-03-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  34. 2018-03-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  35. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  37. 2015-08-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  38. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  39. 2014-12-30Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen
  40. 2014-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  41. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  42. 2014-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  43. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served5,446
Service connections2,570
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAshland
EPA ZIP on file41102

Areas served

  • Milton, Cabell County

Reading this record

Milton Water is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 5,446 people in Ashland, 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.