Is OLIVE HILL MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS's water safe to drink?
OLIVE HILL MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 6,192, over 2,395 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
64 total violations and 16 health-based ones put OLIVE HILL MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS at the 91th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,135 of 12,903.
Against the KY average
OLIVE HILL MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS's 16 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
OLIVE HILL MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS's most recent violation on record is dated 2022-01-11, with the most recent health-based one dated 2018-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
OLIVE HILL MUNICIPAL 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); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
- 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 OLIVE HILL MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS's record does not cover
Everything on this page is OLIVE HILL MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and OLIVE HILL MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,135th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.