Is ASHLAND CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
ASHLAND CITY WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 9,173 people get their water from it, across 3,501 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, ASHLAND CITY WATER DEPARTMENT ranks 6,654th by violation burden (48th percentile) - 8 violations total, 2 health-baseds.
How ASHLAND CITY WATER DEPARTMENT compares within TN
ASHLAND CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's 2 health-based violations sit within the TN average of 4.8, across 318 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for ASHLAND CITY WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2016-08-12 (health-based: 2005-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ASHLAND CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
ASHLAND CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for ASHLAND CITY WATER DEPARTMENT - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.