Is ASHLAND WATER WORKS's water safe to drink?
ASHLAND WATER WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 44,402 people through 14,684 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
ASHLAND WATER WORKS has 112 violations on record in total, 26 of thems health-based - ranking it 671th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 95th percentile nationally.
How ASHLAND WATER WORKS compares within KY
Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - ASHLAND WATER WORKS's 26 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for ASHLAND WATER WORKS is from 2019-01-06 (health-based: 2017-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ASHLAND WATER WORKS's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
ASHLAND WATER WORKS's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 112 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.