Graves Co Water Dist - Fancy Farm, KY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Graves Co Water Dist - Fancy Farm serves about 1,301 people through 438 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 groundwater, in Graves County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0420027; phone on file: 270-247-4661. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Graves Co Water Dist - Fancy Farm is 5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Graves Co Water Dist - Fancy Farm 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. Graves Co Water Dist - Fancy Farm's 5 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Kentucky and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Graves County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Graves Co Water Dist - Fancy Farm. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mayfield Electric & Water | 12,379 | 2 ppb |
| Graves Co Water Dist - Consumers | 5,016 | 2 ppb |
| Graves Co Water Dist - Hickory | 4,069 | 0 (not detected) |
| Graves Co Water Dist - South Graves | 1,844 | 0 (not detected) |
| Symsonia Water District | 1,810 | 0 (not detected) |
| Graves Co Water Dist - Hardeman | 1,006 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wingo Water & Sewer Department | 965 | 3 ppb |
| Graves Co Water Dist - Sedalia | 371 | 6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mayfield, 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 Graves Co Water Dist - Fancy Farm 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.