Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission, KY Water Quality
Is Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission's water safe to drink?
Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 23,760 people get their water from it, across 9,380 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission ranks 4,107th by violation burden (68th percentile) - 30 violations total, 4 health-based.
How Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission compares within KY
Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission's 4 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission is from 2019-03-02 (health-based: 2016-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission'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: 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
Everything on this page is Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission'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 Shelbyville Water & Sewer Commission's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,107th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.