Is NORTHWEST CLAY COUNTY UTILITY's water safe to drink?
NORTHWEST CLAY COUNTY UTILITY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 4,437 people get their water from it, across 1,872 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
NORTHWEST CLAY COUNTY UTILITY has 39 violations on record in total, 11 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,752th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 86th percentile nationally.
How NORTHWEST CLAY COUNTY UTILITY compares within TN
Among the 318 TN systems in this dataset, the average is 4.8 health-based violations - NORTHWEST CLAY COUNTY UTILITY's 11 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for NORTHWEST CLAY COUNTY UTILITY is from 2025-01-10 (health-based: 2025-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NORTHWEST CLAY COUNTY UTILITY'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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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
NORTHWEST CLAY COUNTY UTILITY'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. This record - 11 health-based violations on file for NORTHWEST CLAY COUNTY UTILITY - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.