Community Water System · PWS TN0000568
Puryear Water System
Operator location Puryear, Tennessee - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 833 people served; 28 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 833
- People served (this PWS)
- 28
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Puryear Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third
833 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #22,005 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Puryear Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (28), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (833; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #22,005 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #399 of 436
- Population · TN
- 28
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- 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
- 350
- County
- Henry
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 16
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2024 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 1982 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 1982 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Barium | MCL | 2 | 1982 |
| Cadmium | MCL | 2 | 1982 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1982 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Puryear Water System has 28 recorded EPA violations, 40% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 59% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 28), and it ranks #22,005 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)
28 Lower than most fewer violations than 59% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Puryear Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 833 people served and 350 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
28 violations · 833 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 Puryear Water System
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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