Community Water System · PWSID TN0000195

North Stewart Utility District

Serves 5,983 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentDover, Tennessee
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2006: 18 violations. 6 over the limit · 6 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-04-01.

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

6Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
6Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 95% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 1201020152017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
33% over the limit · 633% missed or late test · 633% notice or report · 6

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

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 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
0.5 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2018-01-20Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherOpen
  2. 2006-03-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0833 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2022-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0611 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2021-12-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2021-07-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2020-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2020-10-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0700 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2018-01-20Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherOpen
  14. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0740 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0780 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0730 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2006-03-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served5,983
Service connections2,328
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityDover
EPA ZIP on file37058

Areas served

  • Dover, Stewart County

Reading this record

North Stewart Utility District is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 5,983 people in Dover, 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.