What's in BARKLEY LAKE WATER DISTRICT's water?
BARKLEY LAKE WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 14,284 people get their water from it, across 6,524 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
BARKLEY LAKE WATER DISTRICT has 66 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,356th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.
Against the KY average
BARKLEY LAKE WATER DISTRICT's 1 health-based violations sit within the KY average of 9.4, across 273 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
BARKLEY LAKE WATER DISTRICT's most recent violation on record is dated 2018-01-05, with the most recent health-based one dated 2002-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
BARKLEY LAKE WATER DISTRICT'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What BARKLEY LAKE WATER DISTRICT's record does not cover
BARKLEY LAKE WATER DISTRICT'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 66 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.