Ketchum City Of

Water Quality Snapshot: Ketchum City Of

Ketchum City Of is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 3,555 residents in Ketchum, Idaho (Blaine County) through 1,963 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 10 total violations for this system , of which 1 (10%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 9 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Chlorine, recorded in 4 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Idaho, EPA tracks 2,005 public water systems serving 1,743,912 people, with 104,850 cumulative violations and 19,965 health-based violations on record. About 96% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 52.3 violations. Statewide, 40 of 60 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (66.7%).

Ketchum City Of's 10 violations sit below the Idaho average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.