Community Water System · PWSID KY0860426

Tompkinsville Water Works

Serves 2,404 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentTompkinsville, Kentucky
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On record since 1997: 22 violations. 5 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 7 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-10-01.

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

5Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 84% 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

1997 · Missed or late test: 12000 · Notice or report: 120002003 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052010 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Treatment lapse: 12015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
23% over the limit · 518% treatment lapse · 432% missed or late test · 727% notice or report · 6

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)2022-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0630 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2022-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2022-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0630 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2021-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2021-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0630 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

7 ppb
5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2021-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2017-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  8. 2017-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2017-02-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2016-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2015-12-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2015-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  17. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  18. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  19. 2005-10-27Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2003-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2000-01-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  22. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,404
Service connections1,161
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityTompkinsville
EPA ZIP on file42167

Areas served

  • Monroe County

Reading this record

Tompkinsville Water Works is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,404 people in Tompkinsville, 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.