Hopkins, KY
A PlainEnviro-computed score from reported facility/violation counts, not an official EPA rating, health forecast, or population-adjusted rate. See methodology.
Environmental data for Hopkins in Kentucky · Population: 45,143
Hopkins, KY is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 4 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 9 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 39/100 (Moderate Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 3.3M lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 5 water systems carry an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Water Systems (9)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| SOUTH HOPKINS WATER DISTRICT | 8,440 | 1 |
| NEBO WATER DISTRICT | 4,702 | 18 |
| NORTH HOPKINS WATER DISTRICT | 3,725 | 15 |
| DAWSON SPRINGS WATER & SEWER | 2,631 | 0 |
| NORTONVILLE WATER WORKS | 2,611 | 0 |
| HANSON WATER SYSTEM | 2,157 | 40 |
| WHITE PLAINS WATER SYSTEM | 1,871 | 1 |
| EARLINGTON WATER & SEWER | 1,708 | 0 |
| MORTONS GAP WATER DEPARTMENT | 1,485 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (4)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahlstrom Filtration LLC | 3.0M lbs |
| 2 | Jlok Corp | 270.1K lbs |
| 3 | Ge Aerospace | 4.4K lbs |
| 4 | Electro Cycle Inc. | 1 lbs |
Cities in Hopkins (2)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.