Is NORTHWEST DYERSBURG U.D.'s water safe to drink?
NORTHWEST DYERSBURG U.D. has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 3,996 people get their water from it, across 1,665 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
NORTHWEST DYERSBURG U.D. has 7 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,488th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 34th percentile nationally.
Against the TN average
NORTHWEST DYERSBURG U.D.'s 1 health-based violations sit within 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
NORTHWEST DYERSBURG U.D.'s most recent violation on record is dated 2017-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1990-01-08. Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
The concern categories on record
NORTHWEST DYERSBURG U.D.'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)
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 NORTHWEST DYERSBURG U.D.'s record does not cover
This is what NORTHWEST DYERSBURG U.D. reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for NORTHWEST DYERSBURG U.D. - 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.