Community Water System · PWSID NC3041060

Rachel`S Landing

Serves 51 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBirmingham, Alabama
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2007: 43 violations. 7 missed or late tests · 36 notices or reports. Most recent began 2016-02-24.

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
7Missed or late test2 open
36Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 93% 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

20052007 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52008 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 32009 · Missed or late test: 22009 · Notice or report: 112009 · Notice or report: 112009 · Notice or report: 112009 · Notice or report: 112009 · Notice or report: 112009 · Notice or report: 112010 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Notice or report: 112010 · Notice or report: 112010 · Notice or report: 112010 · Notice or report: 112010 · Notice or report: 112010 · Notice or report: 1120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
16% missed or late test · 784% notice or report · 36

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

15 ppb
3 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2009-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  3. 2008-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2016-02-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  3. 2014-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2014-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2012-05-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2010-12-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2010-12-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2010-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2010-09-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2010-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2010-06-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2010-06-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2010-03-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2010-03-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2010-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2010-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  21. 2009-12-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2009-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2009-10-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2009-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2009-08-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 18 entries
  1. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2009-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  3. 2009-06-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2009-05-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2009-05-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2009-02-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2009-01-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2009-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  9. 2008-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2008-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  11. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2008-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2007-12-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2007-11-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2007-11-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2007-07-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2007-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  18. 2007-06-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served51
Service connections20
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBirmingham
EPA ZIP on file35222

Areas served

  • Stokesdale, Guilford County

Reading this record

Rachel`S Landing is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 51 people in Birmingham, 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.