Is AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 7,710 people get their water from it, across 2,570 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY has 3 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,999th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 30th percentile nationally.
How AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY compares within AL
AL's 364 covered systems average 2.1 health-based violations each; AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY is from 2010-01-09 (health-based: 2003-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.