Burkesville Water Works, KY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Burkesville Water Works serves about 2,566 people through 806 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Cumberland County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0290049; phone on file: 270-459-3190. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 9 ppb from 9 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Burkesville Water Works is 9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 9 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Burkesville Water Works compares
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. Burkesville Water Works's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Kentucky and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Cumberland County
1 other system shares Cumberland County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Burkesville Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cumberland Co Water District | 7,099 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Burkesville, KY
Look up your address in Burkesville Water Works'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 Burkesville Water Works 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.