Germantown Water Dept, TN Water Quality
Germantown Water Dept: EPA violation history, explained
Germantown Water Dept's only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. Population served: 37,738, over 14,627 connections.
Germantown Water Dept's record against the rest of the country
83 total violations and 0 health-based ones put Germantown Water Dept at the 27th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 9,440 of 12,903.
How Germantown Water Dept compares within TN
Germantown Water Dept's 0 health-based violations sit within the TN average of 5.1, across 321 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 Germantown Water Dept is from 2016-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What this data is and is not
This is what Germantown Water Dept 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 Germantown Water Dept's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 9,440th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.