Is SOUTH GILES UTILITY DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
SOUTH GILES UTILITY DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 6,985 people get their water from it, across 2,851 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
SOUTH GILES UTILITY DISTRICT has 53 violations on record in total, 22 of thems health-based - ranking it 808th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 94th percentile nationally.
How SOUTH GILES UTILITY DISTRICT compares within TN
SOUTH GILES UTILITY DISTRICT's 22 health-based violations sit above 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 SOUTH GILES UTILITY DISTRICT is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2019-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SOUTH GILES 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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is SOUTH GILES 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 SOUTH GILES UTILITY DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 808th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.