Community Water System · PWS TN0000104
Chapel Hill Water System
Operator location Chapel Hill, Tennessee - 83% of 253 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,426 served per SDWIS.
- 3,426
- People served (this PWS) Larger third of systems
- 253
- EPA violations (this PWS) Upper third of systems
- 209
- Health-based (this PWS) Upper third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Chapel Hill Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
83% of 253 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 83% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #9,760 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Chapel Hill Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (253), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (3,426; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 83% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,760 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #280 of 436
- Population · TN
- 253
- Total EPA violations on record
- 83%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1,283
- County
- Marshall
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 35
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 209
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 209 | 2005 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 12 | 2009 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 1998 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 5 | 2008 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2023 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 2001 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2021 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1984 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Chapel Hill Water System has 253 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 83% of this system's own violations are health-based (209 of 253), and it ranks #9,760 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)
253 Higher than most more violations than 88% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
How many violations vs. how serious, among peer systems
Chapel Hill Water System plotted against 29 peer public water systems (500+ people served), by total violation count (x) and the share of those violations that are health-based (y). The crosshair sits at this sample's own median on each axis. A high violation count does not automatically mean a serious record: most monitoring and reporting violations are minor, not health-based.
Violation volume vs. health-based share
Health-based violations on Chapel Hill Water System
209 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TN0000104.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
253 violations · 3,426 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 with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Chapel Hill Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Tennessee compares on the same EPA violation measures. Tennessee systems
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