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Community Water System · PWS KY0750207

Island Water Department

Operator location Island, Kentucky - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 108 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,512 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,512
People served (this PWS)
108
EPA violations (this PWS)
17
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Island Water Department standing, high SDWIS violation third

108 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,786 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Island Water Department sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (108), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,512 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,786 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#296 of 352
Population · KY
108
Total EPA violations on record
16%
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
489
County
McLean
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
8
Monitoring Violations
85
Treatment Tech Violations
9

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 34 2011
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 16 1998
Nitrite MR 15 1998
Lead and Copper Rule MR 10 2008
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 9 1994
Coliform (TCR) MCL 8 2005
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 6 1995
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2011
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Island Water Department has 108 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 25% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (17 of 108), and it ranks #15,786 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)

108 Around the middle fewer violations than 25% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Island Water Department

108 violations on record for KY0750207; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

108 violations · 1,512 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Island Water Department

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Kentucky compares on the same EPA violation measures. Kentucky systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater