Community Water System · PWSID AL0000266

Clay County Water Authority

Serves 2,751 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentLineville, Alabama
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2002: 16 violations. 15 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2021-04-13.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 76% of active water systems in Alabama. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2002 · Missed or late test: 12005201020152018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 720202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
94% missed or late test · 156% notice or report · 1

Across Alabama, 87% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0.63 ppb
0.25 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2002-01-01DBP Stage 1Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-04-13Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2021-04-13Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2021-01-12Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2021-01-12Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-10-22Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2020-10-22Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2020-07-16Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2020-07-16Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-02-01E. ColiMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2020-02-01CryptosporidiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-02-01TurbidityMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2019-04-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-04-01CryptosporidiumMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  14. 2019-04-01TurbidityMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Record KeepingBack in compliance
  16. 2002-01-01DBP Stage 1Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Open

System details

Population served2,751
Service connections917
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLineville
EPA ZIP on file36266

Areas served

  • Lineville, Clay County

Reading this record

Clay County Water Authority is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,751 people in Lineville, Alabama. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.