DrinkingWaterCheck

Is HARRODSBURG MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?

HARRODSBURG MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 8,310, over 3,695 connections.

How this compares nationally

127 total violations and 8 health-based ones put HARRODSBURG MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT at the 82th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,302 of 12,903.

Against the KY average

Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - HARRODSBURG MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's 8 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

HARRODSBURG MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2018-01-09, with the most recent health-based one dated 2014-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.

The concern categories on record

HARRODSBURG MUNICIPAL 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:

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 HARRODSBURG MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover

This is what HARRODSBURG MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and HARRODSBURG MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,302th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.