Community Water System · PWS TN0000048
Benton Water System
Operator location Benton, Tennessee - 0% of 180 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 2,491 served per SDWIS.
- 2,491
- People served (this PWS)
- 180
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Benton Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 180 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #12,004 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Benton Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (180), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,491 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,004 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #311 of 436
- Population · TN
- 180
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 1,122
- County
- Polk
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 170
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2009 |
| Chlorine | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| Atrazine | MR | 7 | 2020 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 5 | 2020 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Benzene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Toluene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Styrene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2021 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2017 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Benton Water System has 180 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 180), and it ranks #12,004 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)
180 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Benton Water System
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TN0000048.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
180 violations · 2,491 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
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 Benton Water System
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