Is LAFAYETTE WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
LAFAYETTE WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 21,551 people get their water from it, across 8,289 connections.
How this compares nationally
LAFAYETTE WATER SYSTEM has 30 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,917th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 62th percentile nationally.
Against the TN average
LAFAYETTE WATER SYSTEM's 3 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
LAFAYETTE WATER SYSTEM's most recent violation on record is dated 2021-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2010-02-10. Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
The concern categories on record
LAFAYETTE WATER SYSTEM'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); Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 LAFAYETTE WATER SYSTEM's record does not cover
Everything on this page is LAFAYETTE WATER SYSTEM's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and LAFAYETTE WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,917th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.