PlainWater

Shelby County, Tennessee

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TN157 · Shelby County 8 sys · 604 viol · #77/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 1.0% health
  • RANK-TOP #77/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Shelby County ranks #77 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #2 of 95 counties in Tennessee. See methodology · corpus placement.

Shelby County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 1.0% 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 #77 of 3,254 · #2 of 95 in Tennessee.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Shelby County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Haywood · lowest Shelby · this county Tipton · near Hancock · highest 40% 85.7% 87.5% 87.5% 88.9% 88.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Memphis Light, Gas, & Water 659,500 7 Clean
Bartlett Water System 57,129 14 Clean
Collierville Water Dept 51,972 55 Clean
Germantown Water Dept 37,738 333 Clean
Millington Water Dept 8,615 33 Clean
Nsa - Midsouth 7,000 38 Clean
Blues City Brewery, LLC 800 124 -
Casper Creek RV Park 80 0 -

Compare beyond Tennessee

Lower-flagged peers for Shelby County

Cross-state counties nearest Shelby County on flagged-system share (87.5%) and cumulative violation count (604). 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

Every figure on PlainWater is rendered directly from EPA SDWIS drinking-water data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on EPA SDWIS data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.