PICKENS COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY: EPA violation history, explained
PICKENS 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. Population served: 14,364, over 4,788 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
62 total violations and 4 health-based ones put PICKENS COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY at the 69th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,000 of 12,903.
Against the AL average
AL's 364 covered systems average 2.1 health-based violations each; PICKENS COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY carries 4, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
PICKENS COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-11-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2013-01-05. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
PICKENS 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)
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 PICKENS COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's record does not cover
PICKENS 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. This record - 4 health-based violations on file for PICKENS COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY - 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.