Community Water System · PWS KY0420475
Wingo Water & Sewer Department
Operator location Wingo, Kentucky - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 965 people served; 213 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 965
- People served (this PWS)
- 213
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wingo Water & Sewer Department standing, high SDWIS violation third
965 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,192 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Wingo Water & Sewer Department sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (213), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (965; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,192 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #337 of 352
- Population · KY
- 213
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- 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
- 316
- County
- Graves
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 195
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 16 | 2010 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2004 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2018 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| Endrin | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Dalapon | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Diquat | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Simazine | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Picloram | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| LASSO | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wingo Water & Sewer Department has 213 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 213), and it ranks #20,192 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)
213 Higher than most more violations than 86% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Wingo Water & Sewer Department
EPA SDWIS lists 965 people served and 316 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
213 violations · 965 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Wingo Water & Sewer Department
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