Tellico Plains Water Dept

Water Quality Snapshot: Tellico Plains Water Dept

Tellico Plains Water Dept is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 7,759 residents in Tellico Plains, Tennessee (Monroe County) through 3,154 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 468 total violations for this system , of which 0 (0%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 456 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene, recorded in 19 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Tennessee, EPA tracks 762 public water systems serving 7,934,203 people, with 43,318 cumulative violations and 9,414 health-based violations on record. About 94% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 56.8 violations. Statewide, 93 of 277 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (33.6%).

Tellico Plains Water Dept's 468 violations sit above the Tennessee average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.