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Rhea County, Tennessee

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TN143 · Rhea County 7 sys · 556 viol · #940/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 28.8% health
  • RANK-UPPER #940/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 33.3% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 71%
  • SYS-TINY 7 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Davidson County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Rhea County ranks #940 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #35 of 95 counties in Tennessee. See methodology · corpus placement.

Rhea County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 28.8% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 33.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #940 of 3,254 · #35 of 95 in Tennessee.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Rhea County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Haywood · lowest Hancock · highest Knox · near Montgomery · near 40% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Dayton Water Dept 25,054 148 Clean
Watts Bar Utility District 15,571 9 Detected
North U.d. of Rhea County 3,640 36 -
Spring City Water System 2,985 178 -
Grandview Utility District 2,187 44 -
Graysville Water Dept 1,888 93 Clean
Laurelbrook School 150 48 -

Compare beyond Tennessee

Mid-flagged peers for Rhea County

Cross-state counties nearest Rhea County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (556). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

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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