Is HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE's water safe to drink?
HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 9,540 people through 3,180 service connections.
HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE's record against the rest of the country
HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE has 8 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,369th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 35th percentile nationally.
How HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE compares within AL
HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE'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 HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE is from 2022-01-07 (health-based: 2011-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE'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
HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE'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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for HALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY, THE - 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.