DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in COFFEE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's water?

COFFEE 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. It serves 6,180 people through 2,060 service connections.

How this compares nationally

COFFEE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY has 48 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,455th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 42th percentile nationally.

How COFFEE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY compares within AL

COFFEE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's 1 health-based violations sit within the AL average of 2.1, across 364 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for COFFEE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2008-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

COFFEE 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:

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 COFFEE 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. Between the utility's meter and COFFEE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,455th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.