PHENIX CITY UTILITIES: EPA violation history, explained
PHENIX CITY UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 42,267, over 14,089 connections.
How this compares nationally
PHENIX CITY UTILITIES has 85 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,725th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 63th percentile nationally.
How PHENIX CITY UTILITIES compares within AL
Among the 364 AL systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - PHENIX CITY UTILITIES's 3 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for PHENIX CITY UTILITIES is from 2023-01-10 (health-based: 2013-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PHENIX CITY 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: 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 this data is and is not
PHENIX CITY 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. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for PHENIX CITY UTILITIES - 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.