Is LINDEN WATER DEPT's water safe to drink?
LINDEN WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 9,568 people get their water from it, across 3,570 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, LINDEN WATER DEPT ranks 6,219th by violation burden (52th percentile) - 20 violations total, 2 health-baseds.
How LINDEN WATER DEPT compares within TN
TN's 318 covered systems average 4.8 health-based violations each; LINDEN WATER DEPT carries 2, not more than typical for the state. 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 LINDEN WATER DEPT is from 2024-01-10 (health-based: 2004-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LINDEN WATER DEPT'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: 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 this data is and is not
LINDEN WATER DEPT'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. Between the utility's meter and LINDEN WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,219th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.