Is RUSSELL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
RUSSELL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 16,923 people get their water from it, across 5,600 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
RUSSELL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY has 20 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,824th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 39th percentile nationally.
How RUSSELL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY compares within AL
AL's 364 covered systems average 2.1 health-based violations each; RUSSELL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY carries 1, not more than typical for the state. 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 RUSSELL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
RUSSELL 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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what RUSSELL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 20 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.