Falmouth Water Department, KY
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 ppb (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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Falmouth Water Department at a glance
Falmouth Water Department serves about 3,861 people through 932 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 Pendleton County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0960126; phone on file: 859-654-3328. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Falmouth Water Department's lead record
That is up 7.1 ppb from 3.9 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Falmouth Water Department is 11 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.3 ppb |
How Falmouth Water Department 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. Falmouth Water Department's 11 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Kentucky and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Pendleton County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Falmouth Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| East Pendleton Water District | 5,515 | 2.74 ppb |
| Pendleton Co Water District #1/South | 3,713 | 4.69 ppb |
| Pendleton Co Water District #1 / North | 1,485 | 0 (not detected) |
| Butler Water Works | 980 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Falmouth, 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 Falmouth 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.