Is MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 3,660 people get their water from it, across 1,220 connections.
MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY's record against the rest of the country
MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY has 33 violations on record in total, 9 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,135th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 83th percentile nationally.
How MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY compares within AL
AL's 364 covered systems average 2.1 health-based violations each; MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY carries 9, more than typical for the state. 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 MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 2023-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MARION COUNTY PUBLIC 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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY 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. Between the utility's meter and MARION COUNTY PUBLIC WATER AUTHORITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,135th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.