CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT: EPA violation history, explained
CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 14,369 people get their water from it, across 5,913 connections.
CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT's record against the rest of the country
22 total violations and 8 health-based ones put CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT at the 81th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,410 of 12,903.
How CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT compares within TN
Among the 318 TN systems in this dataset, the average is 4.8 health-based violations - CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT's 8 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT is from 2022-01-07 (health-based: 2012-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT'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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and CHUCKEY UTILITY DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,410th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.