What's in NORTH NELSON WATER DISTRICT's water?
NORTH NELSON 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 13,365 people through 5,111 service connections.
NORTH NELSON WATER DISTRICT's record against the rest of the country
14 total violations and 7 health-based ones put NORTH NELSON WATER DISTRICT at the 78th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,784 of 12,903.
How NORTH NELSON WATER DISTRICT compares within KY
Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - NORTH NELSON WATER DISTRICT's 7 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 NORTH NELSON WATER DISTRICT is from 2015-01-10 (health-based: 2015-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NORTH NELSON 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)
- 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 this data is and is not
NORTH NELSON 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 NELSON WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,784th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.