Community Water System · PWS TN0000649
South Giles Utility District
Operator location Minor Hill, Tennessee - 66% of 182 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 6,985 served per SDWIS.
- 6,985
- People served (this PWS)
- 182
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 120
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
South Giles Utility District standing, high SDWIS violation third
66% of 182 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 66% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #6,165 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
South Giles Utility District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (182), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (6,985; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 66% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #6,165 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #194 of 436
- Population · TN
- 182
- Total EPA violations on record
- 66%
- 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
- 2,851
- County
- Giles
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 120
- Monitoring Violations
- 55
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 107 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 20 | 2011 |
| Chlorine | MR | 14 | 2011 |
| TTHM | MCL | 13 | 2008 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2024 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
South Giles Utility District has 182 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 66% of this system's own violations are health-based (120 of 182), and it ranks #6,165 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)
182 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 South Giles Utility District
120 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TN0000649.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
182 violations · 6,985 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 with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with South Giles Utility District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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