Community Water System · PWSID AL0001145

Russell County Water Authority

Serves 16,923 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentPhenix City, Alabama

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On record since 2007: 19 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 16 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-07.

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

16Missed or late test

2Notice or report

More violations on record than 80% 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

One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

5% treatment lapse · 184% missed or late test · 1611% notice or report · 2

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

1.6 ppb

1.3 ppb

0 ppb

Every violation on record

2024-12-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01LeadMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2007-10-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served	16,923
Service connections	5,600
Water source	Surface Water Purchased
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Phenix City
EPA ZIP on file	36868

Areas served

Phenix City, Russell County

Reading this record

Russell County Water Authority is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 16,923 people in Phenix 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.