Is MOBILE, BD. OF W&S COMM. OF THE CITY OF's water safe to drink?

MOBILE, BD. OF W&S COMM. OF THE CITY OF had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 279,000 people get their water from it, across 93,000 connections.

How this compares nationally

MOBILE, BD. OF W&S COMM. OF THE CITY OF has 49 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,921th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 54th percentile nationally.

Against the AL average

Among the 364 AL systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - MOBILE, BD. OF W&S COMM. OF THE CITY OF's 2 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

MOBILE, BD. OF W&S COMM. OF THE CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 2023-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.

The concern categories on record

MOBILE, BD. OF W&S COMM. OF THE CITY OF'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

The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What MOBILE, BD. OF W&S COMM. OF THE CITY OF's record does not cover

MOBILE, BD. OF W&S COMM. OF THE CITY OF'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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 49 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.