Transient Non-Community · PWSID TN0004255

Paint Creek Campground - USFS

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalCleveland, Tennessee
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Surface water treatment (SWTR). EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 1979: 11 violations. 3 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2001-11-01.

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

3Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
7Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% 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

1979 · Missed or late test: 11980 · Missed or late test: 119801981 · Over the limit: 11981 · Missed or late test: 21981 · Missed or late test: 21982 · Over the limit: 11982 · Missed or late test: 119851987 · Over the limit: 11987 · Missed or late test: 1199019951999 · Missed or late test: 120002001 · Treatment lapse: 120052010201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
27% over the limit · 39% treatment lapse · 164% missed or late test · 7

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2001-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2001-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open
  2. 1999-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)System inactive
  3. 1987-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 2.00 · limit 1.00 System inactive
  4. 1987-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationSystem inactive
  5. 1982-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationSystem inactive
  6. 1982-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 2.00 · limit 1.00 System inactive
  7. 1981-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  8. 1981-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 2.80 · limit 1.00 System inactive
  9. 1981-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationSystem inactive
  10. 1980-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  11. 1979-12-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive

System details

Population served50
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityCleveland
EPA ZIP on file37312-5374

Areas served

  • Greene County

Reading this record

Paint Creek Campground - USFS is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Cleveland, 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.