Community Water System · PWS TN0000045
Bells Public Utility District
Operator location Bells, Tennessee - 10% of 29 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 2,610 served per SDWIS.
- 2,610
- People served (this PWS)
- 29
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bells Public Utility District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
10% of 29 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,566 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bells Public Utility District lands in the middle third by violation volume (29), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,610 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,566 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #306 of 436
- Population · TN
- 29
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1,048
- County
- Crockett
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 21
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 5 | 2023 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 1999 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2017 |
| Cadmium | MCL | 1 | 1981 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bells Public Utility District has 29 recorded EPA violations, 41% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 58% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 29), and it ranks #11,566 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
29 Lower than most fewer violations than 58% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Bells Public Utility District
3 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TN0000045.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
29 violations · 2,610 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bells Public Utility District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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