Community Water System · PWSID AL0000262

Thomasville Water Works & Sewer Board

Serves 6,897 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentThomasville, Alabama
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On record since 1995: 19 violations. 4 over the limit · 11 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-07-22.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test
4Notice 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

1995 · Missed or late test: 11995200020052008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 220102013 · Notice or report: 120152020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
21% over the limit · 458% missed or late test · 1121% notice or report · 4

Across Alabama, 87% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2021-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2021-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0960 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2021-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0890 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2020-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

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

0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-07-22Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-07-22Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-04-21Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2022-04-21Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-01-20Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2022-01-20Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2021-10-20Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-10-20Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0960 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2021-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2020-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2013-03-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2008-03-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 1995-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served6,897
Service connections2,299
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityThomasville
EPA ZIP on file36784

Areas served

  • Thomasville, Clarke County

Reading this record

Thomasville Water Works & Sewer Board is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 6,897 people in Thomasville, 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.