Transient Non-Community · PWSID MD1071388

Dollar General #13896

Serves 450 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateGoodlettsville, Tennessee
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On record since 2016: 5 violations. 1 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 79% of active water systems in Tennessee. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 320202024 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% over the limit · 160% missed or late test · 320% notice or report · 1

Across Tennessee, 68% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate2024-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 10.95 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 10.95 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance

System details

Population served450
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGoodlettsville
EPA ZIP on file37072

Areas served

  • Cecil County

Reading this record

Dollar General #13896 is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 450 people in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.