Evarts Municipal Water Plant, KY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Evarts Municipal Water Plant at a glance
Evarts Municipal Water Plant serves about 3,059 people through 1,008 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 Harlan County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0480125; phone on file: 606-837-3232. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Evarts Municipal Water Plant is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 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. Evarts Municipal Water Plant's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 22nd percentile in Kentucky and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Harlan County
14 other systems share Harlan County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Evarts Municipal Water Plant. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Harlan Municipal Water Works | 4,574 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cawood Water District | 4,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cumberland Municipal Water Works | 2,843 | 0 (not detected) |
| Black Mtn Utility/Dayhoit | 1,954 | 0 (not detected) |
| Black Mtn Utility/Rosspoint | 1,889 | 0 (not detected) |
| Black Mtn Utility/Wallins | 1,485 | 0 (not detected) |
| Green Hills Water District | 1,443 | 0 (not detected) |
| Black Mtn Utility/Kenvir | 1,396 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lynch Water Works | 1,078 | 2 ppb |
| Benham Water Plant | 855 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Evarts Municipal Water Plant'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 Evarts Municipal Water Plant 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.