Is CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER's water safe to drink?
CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,601 people get their water from it, across 2,355 connections.
How this compares nationally
28 total violations and 7 health-based ones put CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER at the 79th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,684 of 12,903.
How CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER compares within KY
KY's 273 covered systems average 9.4 health-based violations each; CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER carries 7, not 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 CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER is from 2018-06-03 (health-based: 2003-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- 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
CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER'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. Between the utility's meter and CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,684th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.