Is SOMERVILLE WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
SOMERVILLE WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,020 people get their water from it, across 1,928 connections.
How this compares nationally
6 total violations and 1 health-based ones put SOMERVILLE WATER SYSTEM at the 33th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,589 of 12,903.
How SOMERVILLE WATER SYSTEM compares within TN
SOMERVILLE WATER SYSTEM's 1 health-based violations sit within the TN average of 4.8, across 318 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for SOMERVILLE WATER SYSTEM is from 2012-01-07 (health-based: 1986-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SOMERVILLE 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:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
SOMERVILLE 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. Between the utility's meter and SOMERVILLE WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,589th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.