Is CARLISLE WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
CARLISLE WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,059 people get their water from it, across 1,079 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
82 total violations and 38 health-based ones put CARLISLE WATER DEPARTMENT at the 97th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 407 of 12,903.
How CARLISLE WATER DEPARTMENT compares within KY
KY's 273 covered systems average 9.4 health-based violations each; CARLISLE WATER DEPARTMENT carries 38, more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CARLISLE WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2020-02-09 (health-based: 2019-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CARLISLE WATER DEPARTMENT'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: 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
Everything on this page is CARLISLE WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 38 health-based violations on file for CARLISLE WATER DEPARTMENT - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.