Wood Creek Water District, 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.
About Wood Creek Water District
Wood Creek Water District serves about 14,892 people through 5,685 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 Laurel County, Kentucky. EPA system ID: KY0630477; phone on file: 800-551-7965. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Wood Creek Water District's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wood Creek Water District is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Wood Creek Water District 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. Wood Creek Water District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 45th percentile in Kentucky and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Laurel County
4 other systems share Laurel County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wood Creek Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Laurel Co Water District #2 | 16,899 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Laurel Water District | 16,062 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Laurel Water Assoc Inc | 14,878 | 2 ppb |
| London Utility Commission | 8,855 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Wood Creek Water District'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 Wood Creek Water District 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.