Community Water System · PWS KY0040469
Wickliffe Municipal Water System
Operator location Wickliffe, Kentucky - 0% of 159 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,264 served per SDWIS.
- 1,264
- People served (this PWS)
- 159
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wickliffe Municipal Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 159 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #17,382 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Wickliffe Municipal Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (159), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,264 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,382 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #319 of 352
- Population · KY
- 159
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 456
- County
- Ballard
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 137
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 1998 |
| Endothall | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 1997 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2025 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 4 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2018 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2018 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Endrin | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Chlordane | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 3 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wickliffe Municipal Water System has 159 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 159), and it ranks #17,382 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
159 Higher than most more violations than 82% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Wickliffe Municipal Water System
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KY0040469.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
159 violations · 1,264 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
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