Community Water System · PWS KY0140079
Cloverport Water & Sewer System
Operator location Cloverport, Kentucky - 23% of 176 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,560 served per SDWIS.
- 1,560
- People served (this PWS) Middle third of systems
- 176
- EPA violations (this PWS) Upper third of systems
- 41
- Health-based (this PWS) Upper third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Cloverport Water & Sewer System standing, high SDWIS violation third
23% of 176 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 23% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,566 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Cloverport Water & Sewer System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (176), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,560 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 23% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,566 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #295 of 352
- Population · KY
- 176
- Total EPA violations on record
- 23%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 580
- County
- Breckinridge
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 41
- Monitoring Violations
- 93
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 38 | 2014 |
| Trichloroethylene | MCL | 36 | 1998 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 28 | 2018 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 9 | 1994 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2014 |
| Public Notice | Other | 9 | 2018 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 9 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 5 | 2018 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 1994 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cloverport Water & Sewer System has 176 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 23% of this system's own violations are health-based (41 of 176), and it ranks #15,566 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)
176 Higher than most more violations than 83% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
How many violations vs. how serious, among peer systems
Cloverport Water & Sewer System plotted against 29 peer public water systems (500+ people served), by total violation count (x) and the share of those violations that are health-based (y). The crosshair sits at this sample's own median on each axis. A high violation count does not automatically mean a serious record: most monitoring and reporting violations are minor, not health-based.
Violation volume vs. health-based share
Health-based violations on Cloverport Water & Sewer System
41 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KY0140079.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
176 violations · 1,560 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).
What to do with Cloverport Water & Sewer System
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