Madisonville Light & Water, 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.
Madisonville Light & Water at a glance
Madisonville Light & Water serves about 28,102 people through 10,413 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Hopkins County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0540936; phone on file: 270-824-2145. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Madisonville Light & Water is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Madisonville Light & Water 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. Madisonville Light & Water's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 52nd percentile in Kentucky and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Hopkins County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Madisonville Light & Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South Hopkins Water District | 8,440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nebo Water District | 4,702 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Hopkins Water District | 3,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dawson Springs Water & Sewer | 2,631 | 2 ppb |
| Nortonville Water Works | 2,611 | 2 ppb |
| Hanson Water System | 2,157 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Plains Water System | 1,871 | 0 (not detected) |
| Earlington Water & Sewer | 1,708 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mortons Gap Water Department | 1,485 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Sedalia, KY
Look up your address in Madisonville Light & Water'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 Madisonville Light & Water 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.