DECATUR, MUNICIPAL UB OF: EPA violation history, explained
DECATUR, MUNICIPAL UB OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 77,103 people get their water from it, across 25,701 connections.
DECATUR, MUNICIPAL UB OF's record against the rest of the country
DECATUR, MUNICIPAL UB OF has 3 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,930th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 31th percentile nationally.
How DECATUR, MUNICIPAL UB OF compares within AL
DECATUR, MUNICIPAL UB OF's 1 health-based violations sit within the AL average of 2.1, across 364 systems statewide. 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 DECATUR, MUNICIPAL UB OF is from 2020-01-01 (health-based: 2001-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
DECATUR, MUNICIPAL UB OF'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
DECATUR, MUNICIPAL UB OF's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 3 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.