DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in HAMILTON WATER & WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT's water?

HAMILTON WATER & WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 10,500 people through 3,500 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

HAMILTON WATER & WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT has 18 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,248th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 52th percentile nationally.

How HAMILTON WATER & WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT compares within AL

Among the 364 AL systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - HAMILTON WATER & WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT's 2 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for HAMILTON WATER & WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT is from 2022-01-10 (health-based: 1994-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

HAMILTON WATER & WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT'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 HAMILTON WATER & WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT 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 - 2 health-based violations on file for HAMILTON WATER & WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT - 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.