Seymour Water Plant, Lp, KY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.39 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. 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
Seymour Water Plant, Lp serves about 1,560 people through 624 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jackson County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: IN5236009; phone on file: 859-912-0109. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Seymour Water Plant, Lp's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Seymour Water Plant, Lp is 8.39 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.39 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. Seymour Water Plant, Lp's 8.39 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Kentucky and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
2 other systems share Jackson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Seymour Water Plant, Lp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson Co Water Association | 13,629 | 3 ppb |
| Mckee Water Works | 1,331 | 4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Mitchell, 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 Seymour Water Plant, Lp 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.