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Ballard County, Kentucky

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet KY007 · Ballard County 6 sys · 1,618 viol · #2715/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 83.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 1.2% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2715/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 6.7 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 6 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Calloway County (+ 6.7 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Ballard County ranks #2,715 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #111 of 118 counties in Kentucky. See methodology · corpus placement.

Ballard County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 83.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 1.2% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Ballard County . Population served ranks #2,715 of 3,254 · #111 of 118 in Kentucky.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Ballard County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Ballard County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Ballard · this county · lowest Trigg · near Jefferson · near 83.3% 90% 90.9% 100% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Kevil Water Department 1,782 806 -
Lacenter Municipal Water Co 1,291 244 -
Wickliffe Municipal Water System 1,264 159 -
Barlow Water System 1,040 386 -
Dollar General Lovelaceville 300 0 -
Lifeline Recovery Center 160 23 -

Compare beyond Kentucky

Lower-flagged peers for Ballard County

Cross-state counties nearest Ballard County on flagged-system share (83.3%) and cumulative violation count (1,618). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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