Community Water System · PWS KY1170073
Clay Water Works
Operator location Clay, Kentucky - 54% of 175 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,287 served per SDWIS.
- 1,287
- People served (this PWS)
- 175
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 94
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Clay Water Works standing, high SDWIS violation third
54% of 175 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 54% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,263 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Clay Water Works sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (175), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,287 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 54% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,263 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #318 of 352
- Population · KY
- 175
- Total EPA violations on record
- 54%
- 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
- 615
- County
- Webster
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 90
- Monitoring Violations
- 46
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 70 | 2020 |
| TTHM | MCL | 20 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 17 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 16 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 15 | 2019 |
| Public Notice | Other | 12 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 10 | 2014 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 5 | 2018 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 4 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Clay Water Works has 175 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 54% of this system's own violations are health-based (94 of 175), and it ranks #17,263 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)
175 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Clay Water Works
94 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for KY1170073.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
175 violations · 1,287 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 Clay Water Works
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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