Community Water System · PWS TN0000146
Cowan Board of Public Utilities
Operator location Cowan, Tennessee - 9% of 34 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 2,587 served per SDWIS.
- 2,587
- People served (this PWS)
- 34
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cowan Board of Public Utilities standing, mid SDWIS violation third
9% of 34 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,646 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Cowan Board of Public Utilities lands in the middle third by violation volume (34), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,587 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,646 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #309 of 436
- Population · TN
- 34
- Total EPA violations on record
- 9%
- 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
- 1,069
- County
- Franklin
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 27
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2014 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2014 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 6 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 2009 |
| Atrazine | MR | 3 | 2001 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 2 | 2015 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2017 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cowan Board of Public Utilities has 34 recorded EPA violations, 46% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 54% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 34), and it ranks #11,646 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)
34 Lower than most fewer violations than 54% 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 Cowan Board of Public Utilities
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 TN0000146.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
34 violations · 2,587 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 Cowan Board of Public Utilities
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