Eddyville Water Department, KY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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 Eddyville Water Department
Eddyville Water Department serves about 3,843 people through 1,425 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lyon County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0720113; phone on file: 270-625-0848. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eddyville Water Department is 2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Eddyville Water Department's 2 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Kentucky and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share Lyon County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Eddyville Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lyon County Water District | 6,744 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kentucky State Penitentiary | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kuttawa Water Department | 1,143 | 4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eddyville, 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 Eddyville 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.