Is CALHOUN COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
CALHOUN COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 32,796 people get their water from it, across 10,932 connections.
CALHOUN COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's record against the rest of the country
24 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CALHOUN COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY at the 40th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,737 of 12,903.
How CALHOUN COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY compares within AL
AL's 364 covered systems average 2.1 health-based violations each; CALHOUN COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CALHOUN COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY is from 1998-01-01 (health-based: 1991-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CALHOUN COUNTY 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 CALHOUN COUNTY 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 CALHOUN COUNTY 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.