Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub, TN Water Quality
Is Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub's water safe to drink?
Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 254,671 people get their water from it, across 106,113 connections.
How this compares nationally
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub ranks 7,819th by violation burden (39th percentile) - 20 violations total, 1 health-based.
Against the TN average
TN's 321 covered systems average 5.1 health-based violations each; Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub's most recent violation on record is dated 2018-01-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 2012-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
The concern categories on record
Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub'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 Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub's record does not cover
Everything on this page is Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for Knoxville Utilities Board - Kub - 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.