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Is Lexington-Fayette, KY tap water safe?

Kentucky - American Water Co serves Lexington-Fayette, 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

Kentucky - American Water Co serves Lexington-Fayette. In EPA’s and Kentucky’s records it has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 15 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Kentucky - American Water Co is hard, typically 136 mg/L (8 grains per gallon). How Kentucky’s water compares.

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 Kentucky - American Water Co’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Lexington-Fayette

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 Lexington-Fayette

Which ZIP codes are in Lexington-Fayette: 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 Lexington-Fayette

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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