Community Water System · PWS KY0480603
Black Mtn Utility/Kenvir
Operator location Baxter, Kentucky - 0% of 68 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); surface water source; 1,396 served per SDWIS.
- 1,396
- People served (this PWS)
- 68
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Black Mtn Utility/Kenvir standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 68 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 #16,637 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Black Mtn Utility/Kenvir lands in the middle third by violation volume (68), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,396 (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.
- #16,637 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #312 of 352
- Population · KY
- 68
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 410
- County
- Harlan
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 32
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 32 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2000 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2004 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2022 |
| Asbestos | MR | 4 | 2011 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Black Mtn Utility/Kenvir has 68 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 35% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 68), and it ranks #16,637 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)
68 Around the middle fewer violations than 35% 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 Black Mtn Utility/Kenvir
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 KY0480603.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
68 violations · 1,396 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Black Mtn Utility/Kenvir
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