Is HARRIMAN UTILITY BOARD's water safe to drink?
HARRIMAN UTILITY BOARD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 16,653 people get their water from it, across 6,853 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
20 total violations and 4 health-based ones put HARRIMAN UTILITY BOARD at the 67th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,195 of 12,903.
How HARRIMAN UTILITY BOARD compares within TN
Among the 318 TN systems in this dataset, the average is 4.8 health-based violations - HARRIMAN UTILITY BOARD's 4 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for HARRIMAN UTILITY BOARD is from 2023-01-07 (health-based: 2019-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HARRIMAN UTILITY BOARD'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: Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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
HARRIMAN UTILITY BOARD'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 - 4 health-based violations on file for HARRIMAN UTILITY BOARD - 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.