Is SOUTH ALABAMA UTILITIES WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
SOUTH ALABAMA UTILITIES WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 39,249 people get their water from it, across 19,568 connections.
How this compares nationally
124 total violations and 2 health-based ones put SOUTH ALABAMA UTILITIES WATER SYSTEM at the 55th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,748 of 12,903.
Against the AL average
SOUTH ALABAMA UTILITIES WATER SYSTEM's 2 health-based violations sit within the AL average of 2.1, across 364 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
SOUTH ALABAMA UTILITIES WATER SYSTEM's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2000-01-11. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
SOUTH ALABAMA UTILITIES WATER SYSTEM'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 SOUTH ALABAMA UTILITIES WATER SYSTEM's record does not cover
This is what SOUTH ALABAMA UTILITIES WATER SYSTEM 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. Between the utility's meter and SOUTH ALABAMA UTILITIES WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,748th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.