MOREHEAD UTILITY PLANT BOARD: EPA violation history, explained
MOREHEAD UTILITY PLANT BOARD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 9,052 people get their water from it, across 3,422 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
MOREHEAD UTILITY PLANT BOARD has 133 violations on record in total, 15 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,211th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 91th percentile nationally.
Against the KY average
MOREHEAD UTILITY PLANT BOARD's 15 health-based violations sit above the KY average of 9.4, across 273 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
MOREHEAD UTILITY PLANT BOARD's most recent violation on record is dated 2019-01-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 2019-01-12. Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
MOREHEAD UTILITY PLANT BOARD'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); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL; ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Thallium, Total
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 MOREHEAD UTILITY PLANT BOARD's record does not cover
This is what MOREHEAD UTILITY PLANT BOARD 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. This record - 15 health-based violations on file for MOREHEAD UTILITY PLANT BOARD - 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.