Is PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES's water safe to drink?
PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 26,788 people through 9,876 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES has 39 violations on record in total, 11 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,751th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 86th percentile nationally.
Against the KY average
PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES's 11 health-based violations sit above 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
PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES's most recent violation on record is dated 2020-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2020-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES'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:
- 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 synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / vocs, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES's record does not cover
PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES'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 PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,751th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.