EAST PENDLETON WATER DISTRICT: EPA violation history, explained
EAST PENDLETON WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,515 people get their water from it, across 2,414 connections.
How this compares nationally
8 total violations and 4 health-based ones put EAST PENDLETON WATER DISTRICT at the 65th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,472 of 12,903.
How EAST PENDLETON WATER DISTRICT compares within KY
Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - EAST PENDLETON WATER DISTRICT's 4 is at or below 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 EAST PENDLETON WATER DISTRICT is from 2016-01-10 (health-based: 2016-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
EAST PENDLETON 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 this data is and is not
EAST PENDLETON 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. This record - 4 health-based violations on file for EAST PENDLETON WATER DISTRICT - 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.