Is NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO's water safe to drink?

NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 3,818 people get their water from it, across 1,546 connections.

NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO's record against the rest of the country

24 total violations and 8 health-based ones put NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO at the 81th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,404 of 12,903.

How NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO compares within TN

NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO's 8 health-based violations sit above the TN average of 4.8, across 318 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO is from 2021-01-07 (health-based: 2015-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO'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:

• Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)

The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

Everything on this page is NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO'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 NORTH U.DEP. OF DECATUR/BENTON CO's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,404th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.