Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID TN0003416

Scepter Ingot Casting, Inc.

Serves 129 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWaverly, Tennessee
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. 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 2004: 21 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 18 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
2Treatment lapse1 open
18Missed or late test2 open
1Notice 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

2004 · Missed or late test: 12005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% treatment lapse · 286% missed or late test · 185% notice or report · 1

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

8 ppb
6.8 ppb
6.8 ppb
4.5 ppb
2.8 ppb
1 ppb
0.78 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2020-09-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  4. 2017-01-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2020-09-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  7. 2019-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  11. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2018-10-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2017-01-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  19. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  20. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2004-02-10DBP Stage 1Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served129
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWaverly
EPA ZIP on file37185-3290

Areas served

  • Humphreys County

Reading this record

Scepter Ingot Casting, Inc. is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 129 people in Waverly, 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.