Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID AL0000456

International Paper Company,

Serves 750 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSelma, Alabama
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On record since 2012: 5 violations. 5 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2021-01-01.

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
5Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 56% 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

200520102012 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 5

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

6.2 ppb
2.7 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.7 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.6 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2012-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance

System details

Population served750
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySelma
EPA ZIP on file36703

Areas served

  • Selma, Dallas County

Reading this record

International Paper Company, is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 750 people in Selma, 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.