Is NORTH MERCER WATER DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
NORTH MERCER 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 9,775 people through 5,015 service connections.
How this compares nationally
NORTH MERCER WATER DISTRICT has 20 violations on record in total, 7 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,723th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 79th percentile nationally.
Against the KY average
NORTH MERCER WATER DISTRICT's 7 health-based violations sit within the KY average of 9.4, across 273 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
NORTH MERCER WATER DISTRICT's most recent violation on record is dated 2022-01-06, with the most recent health-based one dated 2021-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
NORTH MERCER 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Revised Total Coliform Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; 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 NORTH MERCER WATER DISTRICT's record does not cover
NORTH MERCER 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. Between the utility's meter and NORTH MERCER WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,723th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.