Community Water System · PWSID KY0980350

Pikeville Water Department

Serves 9,638 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentPikeville, Kentucky
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2000: 35 violations. 17 over the limit · 6 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-02.

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

17Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
12Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 93% 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

2000 · Notice or report: 120002005 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12014 · Over the limit: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 420152016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 220202025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
49% over the limit · 1717% missed or late test · 634% notice or report · 12

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)2020-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2020-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2018-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0940 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1010 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.3×)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1120 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1120 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1130 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1110 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1010 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.3×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0940 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1000 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0950 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2015-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0970 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2014-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0910 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 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

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Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2017-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  7. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0940 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  10. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1010 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1120 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1120 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1130 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  17. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1110 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1010 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2015-12-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2015-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2015-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2015-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0940 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1000 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
Show the other 10 entries
  1. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0950 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0970 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  4. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0910 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2011-07-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2008-02-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2005-10-27Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  10. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served9,638
Service connections3,600
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPikeville
EPA ZIP on file41501

Areas served

  • Pike County

Reading this record

Pikeville Water Department is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 9,638 people in Pikeville, 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.