Is CITY OF ALEXANDRIA WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
CITY OF ALEXANDRIA WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 66,798 people through 22,266 service connections.
How this compares nationally
CITY OF ALEXANDRIA WATER SYSTEM has 14 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,287th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 67th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF ALEXANDRIA WATER SYSTEM compares within LA
LA's 347 covered systems average 12.6 health-based violations each; CITY OF ALEXANDRIA WATER SYSTEM carries 4, 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 CITY OF ALEXANDRIA WATER SYSTEM is from 2018-01-06 (health-based: 2018-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF ALEXANDRIA WATER SYSTEM'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); Revised Total Coliform Rule
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
Everything on this page is CITY OF ALEXANDRIA WATER SYSTEM's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF ALEXANDRIA WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,287th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.