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Rutherford County, Tennessee

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TN149 · Rutherford County 5 sys · 394 viol · #164/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 28.4% health
  • RANK-TOP #164/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 5 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, Rutherford County ranks #164 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #4 of 95 counties in Tennessee. See methodology · corpus placement.

Rutherford 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 28.4% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #164 of 3,254 · #4 of 95 in Tennessee.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Rutherford County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Haywood · lowest Hancock · highest Knox · near Sumner · 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
Consolidated U.d. of Rutherford Co 221,871 41 Detected
Murfreesboro Water Department 111,365 34 Detected
Smyrna Water System 60,876 148 Detected
La Vergne Water System 38,730 92 Detected
Fate Sanders Marina, LLC 162 79 -

Compare beyond Tennessee

Mid-flagged peers for Rutherford County

Cross-state counties nearest Rutherford County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (394). 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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