What's in POPLAR GROVE UTILITY DISTRICT's water?
POPLAR GROVE UTILITY DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 19,599, over 6,975 connections.
POPLAR GROVE UTILITY DISTRICT's record against the rest of the country
18 total violations and 3 health-based ones put POPLAR GROVE UTILITY DISTRICT at the 61th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,058 of 12,903.
How POPLAR GROVE UTILITY DISTRICT compares within TN
TN's 318 covered systems average 4.8 health-based violations each; POPLAR GROVE UTILITY DISTRICT carries 3, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for POPLAR GROVE UTILITY DISTRICT is from 2014-01-08 (health-based: 2014-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
POPLAR GROVE 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:
- 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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is POPLAR GROVE UTILITY DISTRICT'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 POPLAR GROVE UTILITY DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,058th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.