DrinkingWaterCheck

NEW MARKET UTILITY DISTRICT: EPA violation history, explained

NEW MARKET UTILITY DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,703 people get their water from it, across 2,185 connections.

How this compares nationally

NEW MARKET UTILITY DISTRICT has 19 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,858th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 39th percentile nationally.

Against the TN average

NEW MARKET UTILITY DISTRICT's 1 health-based violations sit within the TN average of 4.8, across 318 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

NEW MARKET UTILITY DISTRICT's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2000-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.

The concern categories on record

NEW MARKET UTILITY DISTRICT'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:

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 NEW MARKET UTILITY DISTRICT's record does not cover

NEW MARKET UTILITY DISTRICT'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 NEW MARKET UTILITY DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,858th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.