Is SELMER WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
SELMER WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 20,648 people get their water from it, across 8,003 connections.
How this compares nationally
13 total violations and 1 health-based ones put SELMER WATER SYSTEM at the 38th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,036 of 12,903.
How SELMER WATER SYSTEM compares within TN
Among the 318 TN systems in this dataset, the average is 4.8 health-based violations - SELMER WATER SYSTEM's 1 is at or below that. 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 SELMER WATER SYSTEM is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 2009-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SELMER WATER SYSTEM'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
SELMER WATER SYSTEM'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 - 1 health-based violation on file for SELMER WATER SYSTEM - 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.