Lincoln Co B.p.u. #1

Water Quality Snapshot: Lincoln Co B.p.u. #1

Lincoln Co B.p.u. #1 is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 23,846 residents in Fayetteville, Tennessee (Lincoln County) through 9,733 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 283 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 269 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2024.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene, recorded in 12 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%).

Lincoln Co B.p.u. #1's 283 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.