Community Water System · PWSID TN0000274

North Greene Utilities, Inc.

Serves 5,604 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentGreeneville, Tennessee
Nothing open that measures the water, but 5 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2008: 16 violations. 4 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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

4Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test2 open
4Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 94% 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

20052008 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Treatment lapse: 12010 · Missed or late test: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 220202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 46% treatment lapse · 144% missed or late test · 725% notice or report · 4

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2025-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0685 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2025-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0621 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)
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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
0.5 ppb
0.5 ppb

Open now (5)

  1. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  4. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  5. 2010-07-01Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0685 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0621 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  5. 2023-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  7. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  10. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0710 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2010-10-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure Submit Treatment Requirement RptBack in compliance
  15. 2010-07-01Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  16. 2008-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance

System details

Population served5,604
Service connections2,306
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGreeneville
EPA ZIP on file37745

Areas served

  • Greeneville, Greene County

Reading this record

North Greene Utilities, Inc. is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 5,604 people in Greeneville, 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.