RUSSELL WATER COMPANY: EPA violation history, explained
RUSSELL WATER COMPANY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. Population served: 5,181, over 2,330 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
RUSSELL WATER COMPANY has 82 violations on record in total, 18 of thems health-based - ranking it 990th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 92th percentile nationally.
How RUSSELL WATER COMPANY compares within KY
Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - RUSSELL WATER COMPANY's 18 is above 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 RUSSELL WATER COMPANY is from 2024-01-04 (health-based: 2024-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
RUSSELL WATER COMPANY'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 this data is and is not
RUSSELL WATER COMPANY'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. This record - 18 health-based violations on file for RUSSELL WATER COMPANY - 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.