Community Water System · PWS KY0980120
Elkhorn City Water Dept
Operator location Elkhorn City, Kentucky - 39% of 92 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,723 served per SDWIS.
- 1,723
- People served (this PWS)
- 92
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 36
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Elkhorn City Water Dept standing, high SDWIS violation third
39% of 92 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 39% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #14,802 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Elkhorn City Water Dept sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (92), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,723 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 39% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,802 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #285 of 352
- Population · KY
- 92
- Total EPA violations on record
- 39%
- 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
- 580
- County
- Pike
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 30
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 36
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 24 | 2003 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 16 | 2015 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 12 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 1994 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 5 | 1999 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 1993 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2018 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Elkhorn City Water Dept has 92 recorded EPA violations, 71% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 28% carry more. 39% of this system's own violations are health-based (36 of 92), and it ranks #14,802 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)
92 Around the middle fewer violations than 28% 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 Elkhorn City Water Dept
36 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KY0980120.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
92 violations · 1,723 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 Elkhorn City Water Dept
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