Is HENDERSON COUNTY WATER DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
HENDERSON COUNTY WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 17,447 people through 6,465 service connections.
How this compares nationally
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, HENDERSON COUNTY WATER DISTRICT ranks 6,295th by violation burden (51th percentile) - 16 violations total, 2 health-baseds.
How HENDERSON COUNTY WATER DISTRICT compares within KY
Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - HENDERSON COUNTY WATER DISTRICT's 2 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 HENDERSON COUNTY WATER DISTRICT is from 2022-01-07 (health-based: 2016-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HENDERSON COUNTY 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
HENDERSON COUNTY 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 - 2 health-based violations on file for HENDERSON COUNTY 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.