Is SOUTH SIDE U.D. #1's water safe to drink?
SOUTH SIDE U.D. #1 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 4,431 people through 1,724 service connections.
How this compares nationally
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, SOUTH SIDE U.D. #1 ranks 8,882th by violation burden (31th percentile) - 4 violations total, 1 health-based.
How SOUTH SIDE U.D. #1 compares within TN
Among the 318 TN systems in this dataset, the average is 4.8 health-based violations - SOUTH SIDE U.D. #1'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 SOUTH SIDE U.D. #1 is from 2020-01-07 (health-based: 2004-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SOUTH SIDE U.D. #1'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: 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 SIDE U.D. #1'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 SIDE U.D. #1's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,882th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.