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Is Fort Knox, KY tap water safe?

Hardin Co. Water Dist #1/Ft. Knox serves Fort Knox, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Kentucky’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Hardin Co. Water Dist #1/Ft. Knox serves Fort Knox. In EPA’s and Kentucky’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Arsenic at 1.5 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Hardin Co. Water Dist #1/Ft. Knox’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Fort Knox

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Kentucky certifies.

TapBuff hasn’t read Kentucky’s list of certified labs yet. The national page links every state’s own list.

Certified labs, state by state

ZIP codes in Fort Knox

Which ZIP codes are in Fort Knox: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology.

Near Fort Knox

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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