Is SOUTH HOPKINS WATER DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
SOUTH HOPKINS 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: 8,440, over 2,951 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
18 total violations and 3 health-based ones put SOUTH HOPKINS WATER DISTRICT at the 61th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,061 of 12,903.
Against the KY average
KY's 273 covered systems average 9.4 health-based violations each; SOUTH HOPKINS WATER DISTRICT carries 3, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
SOUTH HOPKINS WATER DISTRICT's most recent violation on record is dated 2020-01-09, with the most recent health-based one dated 2020-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
SOUTH HOPKINS 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Revised Total Coliform Rule
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 SOUTH HOPKINS WATER DISTRICT's record does not cover
SOUTH HOPKINS WATER DISTRICT'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 SOUTH HOPKINS WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,061th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.