What's in HOUSTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's water?
HOUSTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,902 people get their water from it, across 1,634 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
10 total violations and 1 health-based ones put HOUSTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY at the 36th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,233 of 12,903.
How HOUSTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY compares within AL
HOUSTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's 1 health-based violations sit within the AL average of 2.1, across 364 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for HOUSTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY is from 2023-01-07 (health-based: 1998-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HOUSTON COUNTY 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
Everything on this page is HOUSTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for HOUSTON COUNTY 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.