North U.Dep. of Decatur/Benton Co, TN Water Quality
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 5.1, across 321 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.