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Laurel County, Kentucky

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet KY125 · Laurel County 5 sys · 832 viol · #724/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 7.7% health
  • RANK-UPPER #724/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 80.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 5 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Jefferson County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Laurel County ranks #724 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #11 of 118 counties in Kentucky. See methodology · corpus placement.

Laurel County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 7.7% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 80.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #724 of 3,254 · #11 of 118 in Kentucky.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Laurel County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Ballard · lowest Robertson · highest Fayette · near Warren · near 83.3% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Laurel Co Water District #2 16,899 168 Detected
East Laurel Water District 16,062 27 Detected
Wood Creek Water District 14,892 541 Detected
West Laurel Water Assoc Inc 14,878 31 Clean
London Utility Commission 8,855 65 Detected

Compare beyond Kentucky

Mid-flagged peers for Laurel County

Cross-state counties nearest Laurel County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (832). 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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