SHARPSBURG WATER DISTRICT: EPA violation history, explained
SHARPSBURG WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 4,332, over 1,935 connections.
How this compares nationally
SHARPSBURG WATER DISTRICT has 29 violations on record in total, 20 of thems health-based - ranking it 901th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 93th percentile nationally.
How SHARPSBURG WATER DISTRICT compares within KY
Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - SHARPSBURG WATER DISTRICT's 20 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 SHARPSBURG WATER DISTRICT is from 2019-01-01 (health-based: 2018-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SHARPSBURG 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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what SHARPSBURG WATER DISTRICT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 20 health-based violations on file for SHARPSBURG WATER DISTRICT - 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.