Bowling Green Municipal Utilities, KY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Bowling Green Municipal Utilities at a glance
Bowling Green Municipal Utilities serves about 53,601 people through 19,716 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Warren County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY1140038; phone on file: 270-792-9941. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.7 ppb from 3.7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bowling Green Municipal Utilities is 3.7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.5 ppb |
Against other Kentucky systems
Of the 367 Kentucky systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 4 have gone over at some point. Bowling Green Municipal Utilities's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 56th percentile in Kentucky and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Warren County
1 other system shares Warren County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bowling Green Municipal Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Warren County Water District | 91,118 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Bowling Green Municipal Utilities's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bowling Green Municipal Utilities whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.