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Is Fairview, TN tap water safe?

Water Auth of Dickson County serves Fairview, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Water Auth of Dickson County serves Fairview. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 1.0 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Water Auth of Dickson County’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Fairview

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Tennessee certifies.

The 3 labs Tennessee certifies closest to Fairview, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pace Analytical National Center for Testing&Evaluation

    Mount Juliet, TN · about 38 miles

    Certified for bacteria, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity

    (615) 758-5858

  • Jacobs - Fort Campbell Water Plant

    Fort Campbell, KY · about 48 miles

    Certified for metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (931) 431-2888

  • Logan-Todd Regional Water Commission

    Guthrie, KY · about 51 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (270) 483-6990

Tennessee Department of Health: Water quality testing for eligible private wells and springs, through the program formerly called SafeWATCH. Contact the department's Waterborne Disease Team to ask about eligibility. Free for eligible wells and springs. Waterborne Diseases, Tennessee Department of Health.

All 37 certified labs for Tennessee

ZIP codes in Fairview

Which ZIP codes are in Fairview: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: TDEC, commercial laboratories certified for drinking water analysis; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.