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Moore County, Tennessee

2 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 8,184 people in Moore County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

2
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
100
Total violations Lower third of counties
50.0%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TN127 · Moore County 2 sys · 100 viol · #2504/3254

VIOL-HIGH · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-LOWER · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-HIGH 50.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 7.0% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2504/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +10.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 2 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Haywood County ( -10 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Moore County ranks #2,504 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #91 of 95 counties in Tennessee. See methodology · corpus placement.

Moore County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 50.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 7.0% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,504 of 3,254 · #91 of 95 in Tennessee.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Moore County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Moore County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Haywood · lowest Henderson · near Wayne · near 40% 50% 75% 75% 75% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.d. #1 7,895 100 Clean
Metro Lynchburg/Moore Co U.d. #2 289 0 -

Compare beyond Tennessee

Lower-flagged peers for Moore County

Cross-state counties nearest Moore County on flagged-system share (50.0%) and cumulative violation count (100). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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