Is RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,061 people get their water from it, across 687 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
15 total violations and 4 health-based ones put RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT at the 67th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,284 of 12,903.
How RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT compares within AL
Among the 364 AL systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT's 4 is above that. 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 RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT is from 2025-11-11 (health-based: 2010-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT'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
RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT'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 RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,284th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.