Is FIRST U.D. OF TIPTON COUNTY's water safe to drink?
FIRST U.D. OF TIPTON COUNTY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 9,017 people through 3,880 service connections.
How this compares nationally
FIRST U.D. OF TIPTON COUNTY has 4 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,937th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 46th percentile nationally.
Against the TN average
Among the 318 TN systems in this dataset, the average is 4.8 health-based violations - FIRST U.D. OF TIPTON COUNTY's 2 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
FIRST U.D. OF TIPTON COUNTY's most recent violation on record is dated 2016-01-02, with the most recent health-based one dated 2016-01-02. Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
The concern categories on record
FIRST U.D. OF TIPTON COUNTY'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)
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 FIRST U.D. OF TIPTON COUNTY's record does not cover
This is what FIRST U.D. OF TIPTON COUNTY 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 FIRST U.D. OF TIPTON COUNTY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,937th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.