Is WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 77,825 people through 32,427 service connections.
WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT's record against the rest of the country
5 total violations and 1 health-based ones put WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT at the 33th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,650 of 12,903.
How WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT compares within TN
WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT'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 WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT is from 2021-01-07 (health-based: 2017-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WEST KNOX 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: 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
This is what WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and WEST KNOX UTILITY DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,650th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.