Community Water System · PWS KY0700401
Smithland Water & Sewer
Operator location Smithland, Kentucky - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 989 people served; 528 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 989
- People served (this PWS)
- 528
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 75
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Smithland Water & Sewer standing, high SDWIS violation third
989 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #19,964 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Smithland Water & Sewer sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (528), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (989; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #19,964 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #333 of 352
- Population · KY
- 528
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- 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
- 251
- County
- Livingston
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 64
- Monitoring Violations
- 306
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 11
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 56 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 34 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 18 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 15 | 2018 |
| Public Notice | Other | 13 | 2018 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 13 | 2016 |
| Nitrate | MR | 12 | 1997 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 9 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 1999 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 6 | 1999 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 5 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 5 | 2018 |
| Asbestos | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Diquat | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| LASSO | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Chlordane | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 4 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Smithland Water & Sewer has 528 recorded EPA violations, 96% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 4% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (75 of 528), and it ranks #19,964 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)
528 Higher than most more violations than 96% 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 Smithland Water & Sewer
EPA SDWIS lists 989 people served and 251 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
528 violations · 989 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 Smithland Water & Sewer
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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