Community Water System · PWSID TN0000682

Surgoinsville Utility District

Serves 2,609 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: Local GovernmentSurgoinsville, Tennessee
Nothing open that measures the water, but 7 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: 12 violations. 1 over the limit · 9 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2017-07-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test6 open
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 92% 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: 120102013 · Missed or late test: 62013 · Missed or late test: 62013 · Missed or late test: 62013 · Missed or late test: 62013 · Missed or late test: 62013 · Missed or late test: 62013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 220152017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 175% missed or late test · 917% notice or report · 2

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

2.9 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.6 ppb
1 ppb

Open now (7)

  1. 2013-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  2. 2013-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  3. 2013-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  4. 2013-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  5. 2013-03-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2013-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  7. 2013-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2014-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2014-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2013-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  6. 2013-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  7. 2013-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  8. 2013-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  9. 2013-03-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2013-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  11. 2013-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportOpen
  12. 2008-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance

System details

Population served2,609
Service connections1,078
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySurgoinsville
EPA ZIP on file37873

Areas served

  • Surgoinsville, Hawkins County

Reading this record

Surgoinsville Utility District is a community water system that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 2,609 people in Surgoinsville, 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.