Community Water System · PWS TN0000138
Cherokee Hills U.d.
Operator location Copperhill, Tennessee - 61% of 109 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 258 served per SDWIS.
- 258
- People served (this PWS)
- 109
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 67
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cherokee Hills U.d. standing, high SDWIS violation third
61% of 109 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 61% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Cherokee Hills U.d. sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (109), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (258; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 61% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 109
- Total EPA violations on record
- 61%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 258
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 116
- County
- Polk
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 36
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 63
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 63 | 1998 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2022 |
| Chlorine | MR | 8 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 5 | 2021 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2011 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cherokee Hills U.d. has 109 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 25% carry more. 61% of this system's own violations are health-based (67 of 109), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
109 Around the middle fewer violations than 25% 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 Cherokee Hills U.d.
67 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TN0000138.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
109 violations · 258 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.
What to do with Cherokee Hills U.d.
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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