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Smith County, Tennessee

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TN159 · Smith County 7 sys · 307 viol · #1646/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 31.9% health
  • RANK-MID #1646/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • 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, Smith County ranks #1,646 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #63 of 95 counties in Tennessee. See methodology · corpus placement.

Smith 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 31.9% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,646 of 3,254 · #63 of 95 in Tennessee.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Smith County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Smith 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
Smith Utility District 8,913 49 Detected
South Side U.d. #1 4,431 12 Clean
Carthage Water System 3,624 75 Clean
Cordell Hull Utility District 3,220 76 Clean
Twenty Five Utility District 2,125 50 -
South Side U.d. #2 702 7 -
South Side U.d. #3 192 38 -

Compare beyond Tennessee

Mid-flagged peers for Smith County

Cross-state counties nearest Smith County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (307). 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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