Community Water System · PWSID AL0000068

Spanish Fort Water System

Serves 10,161 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentSpanish Fort, Alabama
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On record since 1993: 25 violations. 25 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2022-03-15.

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
25Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 85% 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

1993 · Missed or late test: 11995200020052008 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 120152020 · Missed or late test: 142020 · Missed or late test: 142020 · Missed or late test: 142020 · Missed or late test: 142020 · Missed or late test: 142020 · Missed or late test: 142020 · Missed or late test: 1420202021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 25

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

2.3 ppb
0.48 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-03-15Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2022-03-15Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2021-12-15Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2021-12-15Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-09-20Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2021-09-20Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2021-06-17Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-06-17Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2020-01-01LeadMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2020-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2020-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2020-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2020-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2020-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2020-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2011-10-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  24. 2008-10-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  25. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served10,161
Service connections3,387
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySpanish Fort
EPA ZIP on file36527

Areas served

  • Spanish Fort, Baldwin County

Reading this record

Spanish Fort Water System is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 10,161 people in Spanish Fort, 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.