COWARTS WATER SYSTEM: EPA violation history, explained
COWARTS 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 2,262 people through 754 service connections.
How this compares nationally
COWARTS WATER SYSTEM has 2 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,163th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 29th percentile nationally.
How COWARTS WATER SYSTEM compares within AL
Among the 364 AL systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - COWARTS WATER SYSTEM's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for COWARTS WATER SYSTEM is from 2022-11-04 (health-based: 1999-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
COWARTS 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)
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 COWARTS WATER SYSTEM 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 COWARTS WATER SYSTEM - 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.