Community Water System · PWSID AL0000546

Pollard (Town Of)

Serves 216 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentPollard, Alabama
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On record since 2015: 23 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 22 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2022-07-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
22Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 82% 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

200520102015 · Treatment lapse: 1201520202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 196% missed or late test · 22

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 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5 ppb
5 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.4 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-07-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-07-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-07-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2022-07-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-07-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2022-07-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-07-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-07-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-07-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-07-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-07-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-07-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-07-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-07-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-07-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-07-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-07-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-07-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-07-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2022-07-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2022-07-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  23. 2015-02-03Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance

System details

Population served216
Service connections72
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPollard
EPA ZIP on file36441

Areas served

  • Pollard, Escambia County

Reading this record

Pollard (Town Of) is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 216 people in Pollard, 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.