Community Water System · PWSID KY0260266

North Manchester Water Assoc

Serves 5,332 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateManchester, Kentucky
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 2015: 15 violations. 6 over the limit · 5 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-24.

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

6Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 71% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% over the limit · 633% missed or late test · 527% 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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2025-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2025-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2018-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0750 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2018-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0670 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2017-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0670 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)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

1.3 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-09-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  3. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  3. 2025-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  5. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0750 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2018-01-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0670 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0670 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0640 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2015-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance

System details

Population served5,332
Service connections1,982
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityManchester
EPA ZIP on file40962

Areas served

  • Clay County

Reading this record

North Manchester Water Assoc is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 5,332 people in Manchester, 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.