Is MACON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
MACON 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. It serves 6,951 people through 2,405 service connections.
MACON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's record against the rest of the country
78 total violations and 6 health-based ones put MACON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY at the 77th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,953 of 12,903.
How MACON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY compares within AL
Among the 364 AL systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - MACON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's 6 is above 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 MACON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY is from 2024-01-10 (health-based: 2019-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MACON 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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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
MACON COUNTY 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. Between the utility's meter and MACON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,953th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.