Community Water System · PWS TN0000403
Dowelltown-Liberty W.S.
Operator location South Carthage, Tennessee - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 210 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,065 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,065
- People served (this PWS)
- 210
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Dowelltown-Liberty W.S. standing, high SDWIS violation third
210 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 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,878 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Dowelltown-Liberty W.S. sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (210), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,065 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,878 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #381 of 436
- Population · TN
- 210
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- 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
- 419
- County
- DeKalb
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 170
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 7
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 28 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 26 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Public Notice | Other | 5 | 2023 |
| Atrazine | MR | 5 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2024 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 5 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2009 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 3 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2022 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Benzene | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Styrene | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 2 | 1995 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 2 | 1995 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 2 | 1995 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2023 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Dowelltown-Liberty W.S. has 210 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 210), and it ranks #18,878 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)
210 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Dowelltown-Liberty W.S.
210 violations on record for TN0000403; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
210 violations · 1,065 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).
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