Community Water System · PWSID AL0001285

Ray Water Authority

Serves 1,257 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentAlexander City, Alabama
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On record since 2016: 31 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 27 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-05.

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
27Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 89% 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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 187% missed or late test · 2710% notice or report · 3

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

1.3 ppb
0.44 ppb
0.3 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-05Public 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. 2020-05-13Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-05-13Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2020-02-13Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2020-02-13Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2020-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2019-11-08Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-11-08Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-08-14Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-08-14Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-06-18DBP Stage 1Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2019-05-15Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2019-05-15Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2019-02-13Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2019-02-13Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-11-19Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2018-11-19Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-08-18Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2018-08-18Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2018-02-16Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2018-02-16Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-11-15Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2017-11-15Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 6 entries
  1. 2017-08-21Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-08-21Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-05-10Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2017-05-10Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2017-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,257
Service connections428
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAlexander City
EPA ZIP on file35010

Areas served

  • Alexander City, Coosa County

Reading this record

Ray Water Authority is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,257 people in Alexander City, 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.