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Houston County, Alabama

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet AL069 · Houston County 16 sys · 1,072 viol · #489/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-LOW · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 93.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 3.4% health
  • RANK-TOP #489/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +4.9 pp
  • PFAS-LOW 20.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 16 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Geneva County ( -4.9 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Houston County ranks #489 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #13 of 67 counties in Alabama. See methodology · corpus placement.

Houston County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 93.8% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 3.4% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 20.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #489 of 3,254 · #13 of 67 in Alabama.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Houston County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Houston County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Bibb · lowest Houston · this county Jefferson · near Mobile · near 80% 88.9% 93.8% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Dothan Utilities, City Of 97,146 424 Detected
Taylor Water System 9,339 10 Clean
Houston County Water Authority 4,902 21 Clean
Ashford Water Works 3,816 124 Clean
Cottonwood Water Works 3,570 114 Clean
Cowarts Water System 2,262 6 -
Kinsey Water System 2,010 8 -
Webb Water System 1,521 52 -
Columbia Water Works 1,179 222 -
Farley Nuclear Plant 850 17 -
Avon Water System 495 6 -
Gordon, Town Of 414 44 -
Dollar General #19936 Gordon, AL 32 0 -
West Bank Damsite/George W Andrews 30 16 -
Allen Aaf 30 4 -
Toth Field 30 4 -

Compare beyond Alabama

Mid-flagged peers for Houston County

Cross-state counties nearest Houston County on flagged-system share (93.8%) and cumulative violation count (1,072). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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