Drakesboro Water Department, KY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Drakesboro Water Department at a glance
Drakesboro Water Department serves about 888 people through 287 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 Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0890106; phone on file: 270-820-0019. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Drakesboro Water Department's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Drakesboro Water Department is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 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. Drakesboro Water Department's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in Kentucky and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Muhlenberg County
4 other systems share Muhlenberg County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Drakesboro Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Muhlenberg Co Water District | 16,845 | 0 (not detected) |
| Muhlenberg Co Water District #3 | 7,075 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenville Utilities Commission | 5,649 | 0 (not detected) |
| Central City Water & Sewer | 5,601 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Drakesboro Water Department'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 Drakesboro Water Department 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.