Kentucky

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EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    425

  • Community Water Systems

    374

  • Systems with Violations

    18

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    24

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    03/06/1998

  • Population Served

    4,558,564

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    1.72%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    488

  • CWA Total Violations

    1,731

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    7,259

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.41%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    4,502,935

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $60,183

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    6%

  • MALE

    2,234,041

  • FEMALE

    2,268,894

  • MEDIAN AGE

    39.1

  • MULTIRACIAL

    4,322,454

  • WHITE

    3,748,657

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    355,368

  • LATINO

    180,481

  • ASIAN

    69,187

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    3,902

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    3,167

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this state here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=KY Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/kentucky/https://enviro.epa.gov/envirofacts/sdwis/search/form?state_abbr=KY Additional state water resources:https://amwater.com/kyaw/

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