HAMDEN RIDGE WATER AUTHORITY: EPA violation history, explained
HAMDEN RIDGE WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,196 people get their water from it, across 732 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
HAMDEN RIDGE WATER AUTHORITY has 98 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,252th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 44th percentile nationally.
How HAMDEN RIDGE WATER AUTHORITY compares within AL
Among the 364 AL systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - HAMDEN RIDGE WATER AUTHORITY'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 HAMDEN RIDGE WATER AUTHORITY is from 2024-01-01 (health-based: 2001-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HAMDEN RIDGE 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:
- 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
HAMDEN RIDGE WATER AUTHORITY'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 HAMDEN RIDGE WATER AUTHORITY - 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.