Is GALLATIN WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
GALLATIN WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 65,964 people get their water from it, across 24,341 connections.
How this compares nationally
4 total violations and 1 health-based ones put GALLATIN WATER DEPARTMENT at the 32th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,802 of 12,903.
Against the TN average
GALLATIN WATER DEPARTMENT's 1 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
GALLATIN WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2017-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1982-11-03. Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
The concern categories on record
GALLATIN 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:
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Mercury
The most severe category on record is other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What GALLATIN WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover
GALLATIN 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 - 1 health-based violation on file for GALLATIN 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.