Community Water System · PWS TN0000251
Gainesboro Water System
Operator location Gainsboro, Tennessee - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 97 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,596 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,596
- People served (this PWS)
- 97
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Gainesboro Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
97 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,417 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Gainesboro Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (97), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,596 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,417 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #348 of 436
- Population · TN
- 97
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- 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
- 626
- County
- Jackson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 85
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 13 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 11 | 2010 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2009 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2009 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Nickel | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2021 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 2 | 1983 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Filter Backwash Rule | Other | 2 | 2010 |
| Atrazine | MR | 2 | 2013 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 2 | 2010 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 2 | 2010 |
| Asbestos | MR | 1 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Gainesboro Water System has 97 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 97), and it ranks #15,417 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)
97 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Gainesboro Water System
97 violations on record for TN0000251; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
97 violations · 1,596 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 Gainesboro Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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