Community Water System · PWS TN0000320
Iron City Utility District
Operator location Iron City, Tennessee - 0% of 62 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); surface water source; 729 served per SDWIS.
- 729
- People served (this PWS)
- 62
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Iron City Utility District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 62 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 #23,808 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Iron City Utility District lands in the middle third by violation volume (62), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (729; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. 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.
- #23,808 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #409 of 436
- Population · TN
- 62
- 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
- 272
- County
- Lawrence
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 49
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 19 | 2011 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 4 | 2000 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1982 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Iron City Utility District has 62 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 62), and it ranks #23,808 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)
62 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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 Iron City Utility District
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 TN0000320.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
62 violations · 729 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Iron City Utility District
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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