Doe Valley Utilities Inc, KY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Doe Valley Utilities Inc
Doe Valley Utilities Inc serves about 2,260 people through 943 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Meade County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0820641; phone on file: 270-422-2188. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Doe Valley Utilities Inc is 9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 9 ppb |
How Doe Valley Utilities Inc 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. Doe Valley Utilities Inc's 4 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Kentucky and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share Meade County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Doe Valley Utilities Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Meade County Water District | 33,313 | 2 ppb |
| Brandenburg Water Works | 2,880 | 3 ppb |
| Muldraugh Water Department | 1,411 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Brandenburg, KY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brandenburg, 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 Doe Valley Utilities Inc 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.