Is LEITCHFIELD WATER WORKS's water safe to drink?
LEITCHFIELD WATER WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 8,438 people through 2,912 service connections.
How this compares nationally
LEITCHFIELD WATER WORKS has 12 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,090th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 37th percentile nationally.
How LEITCHFIELD WATER WORKS compares within KY
Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - LEITCHFIELD WATER WORKS's 1 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 LEITCHFIELD WATER WORKS is from 2003-01-01 (health-based: 1995-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LEITCHFIELD WATER WORKS'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: Coliform (TCR)
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
LEITCHFIELD WATER WORKS'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 - 1 health-based violation on file for LEITCHFIELD WATER WORKS - 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.