Mt Carmel High Boarding School, KY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Mt Carmel High Boarding School serves about 100 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Breathitt County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0130949; phone on file: 859-314-4083. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mt Carmel High Boarding School is 7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 7 ppb |
How Mt Carmel High Boarding School 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. Mt Carmel High Boarding School's 3 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Kentucky and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
2 other systems share Breathitt County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Mt Carmel High Boarding School. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Breathitt Co Water District | 5,068 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson Municipal Water Works | 4,704 | 7 ppb |
Next steps for Jackson, KY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jackson, 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 Mt Carmel High Boarding School 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.