Community Water System · PWSID AL0000089

Mt Andrew Water Authority

Serves 660 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentMidway, Alabama
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On record since 2011: 10 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-07.

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

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
7Notice or report

More violations on record than 71% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 1201520202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% over the limit · 120% treatment lapse · 270% notice or report · 7

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

1.2 ppb
0.99 ppb
0.27 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-08Groundwater RuleFailure to Notify Other PWSBack in compliance
  6. 2021-06-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  7. 2021-05-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-05-13Groundwater RuleFailure to Notify Other PWSBack in compliance
  9. 2021-05-01E. ColiMCL, Single Samplemeasured 1.00 CTBack in compliance
  10. 2011-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served660
Service connections220
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMidway
EPA ZIP on file36053

Areas served

  • Midway, Barbour County

Reading this record

Mt Andrew Water Authority is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 660 people in Midway, 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.