Kentucky-American Water Co, KY Water Quality
Kentucky-American Water Co: EPA violation history, explained
Kentucky-American Water Co has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 669,042 people through 134,973 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Kentucky-American Water Co has 7 violations on record in total, 2 of them health-based - ranking it 6,682th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 48th percentile nationally.
How Kentucky-American Water Co compares within KY
KY's 273 covered systems average 9.4 health-based violations each; Kentucky-American Water Co carries 2, not more than typical for the state. 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 Kentucky-American Water Co is from 2015-01-07 (health-based: 2015-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Kentucky-American Water Co'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
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: 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 Kentucky-American Water Co's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for Kentucky-American Water Co - 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.