Kentucky American Water - Clinton, KY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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 Kentucky American Water - Clinton
Kentucky American Water - Clinton serves about 1,633 people through 542 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hickman County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0530077; phone on file: 859-268-6317. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kentucky American Water - Clinton is 5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Kentucky American Water - Clinton's 4 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Kentucky and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
1 other system shares Hickman County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kentucky American Water - Clinton. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus Water Works | 300 | 1.32 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lexington, 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 Kentucky American Water - Clinton 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.