Is NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES's water safe to drink?
NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 15,300 people get their water from it, across 5,100 connections.
NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES's record against the rest of the country
NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES has 4 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,830th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 32th percentile nationally.
How NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES compares within AL
NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES'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 NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES is from 2023-11-10 (health-based: 2001-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES'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: 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
NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES'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 NORTH MARSHALL UTILITIES's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,830th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.