Is UNION GROVE UTILITY BOARD's water safe to drink?
UNION GROVE UTILITY BOARD had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 3,072 people through 1,024 service connections.
How this compares nationally
UNION GROVE UTILITY BOARD has 28 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,693th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 40th percentile nationally.
How UNION GROVE UTILITY BOARD compares within AL
Among the 364 AL systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - UNION GROVE UTILITY BOARD's 1 is at or below 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 UNION GROVE UTILITY BOARD is from 2022-09-07 (health-based: 2022-09-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
UNION GROVE UTILITY BOARD'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: Revised Total Coliform Rule
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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is UNION GROVE UTILITY BOARD's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and UNION GROVE UTILITY BOARD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,693th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.