City Of South Shore Water Works, KY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About City Of South Shore Water Works
City Of South Shore Water Works serves about 6,798 people through 2,024 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Greenup County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0450410; phone on file: 606-932-6144. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of South Shore Water Works's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of South Shore Water Works is 3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. City Of South Shore Water Works's 2 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Kentucky and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Greenup County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of South Shore Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greenup Water System | 12,193 | 1 ppb |
| Flatwoods Water Company | 9,649 | 2 ppb |
| Russell Water Company | 5,181 | 3 ppb |
| Raceland Water System | 3,201 | 2 ppb |
| Wurtland Water Department | 1,815 | 3 ppb |
| Worthington Municipal Water Works | 1,673 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; South Shore, KY may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask City Of South Shore 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.