Community Water System · PWSID TN0000246

Franklin Water Dept

Serves 77,222 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentFranklin, Tennessee
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1999: 20 violations. 7 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-03-01.

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

7Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
10Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 96% 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

1999 · Notice or report: 120002003 · Missed or late test: 22003 · Missed or late test: 22005 · Notice or report: 22005 · Notice or report: 2200520102015 · Notice or report: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
35% over the limit · 715% missed or late test · 350% notice or report · 10

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2022-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0914 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2022-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0849 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 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.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.4 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2019-11-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0868 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0914 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0849 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2020-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2020-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0887 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2019-11-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0930 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2018-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  15. 2015-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Record KeepingBack in compliance
  16. 2005-10-10Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Record KeepingBack in compliance
  17. 2005-04-25Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Record KeepingBack in compliance
  18. 2003-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2003-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportBack in compliance
  20. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served77,222
Service connections27,001
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityFranklin
EPA ZIP on file37064

Areas served

  • Williamson County

Reading this record

Franklin Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 77,222 people in Franklin, 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.