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Limestone County, Alabama

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet AL083 · Limestone County 4 sys · 664 viol · #537/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 3.2% health
  • RANK-TOP #537/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 66.7% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 50%
  • SYS-TINY 4 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Jefferson County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Limestone County ranks #537 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #17 of 67 counties in Alabama. See methodology · corpus placement.

Limestone County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 3.2% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 66.7% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #537 of 3,254 · #17 of 67 in Alabama.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Limestone County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Bibb · lowest Greene · highest Madison · near Baldwin · near 80% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Limestone County Water and Sewer Auth. 65,003 139 Detected
Athens, the Waterworks Bd of the City Of 40,596 53 Clean
Ardmore Water System 3,903 432 Detected
Swan Creek Community, Royce Swan, LLC 324 40 -

Compare beyond Alabama

Mid-flagged peers for Limestone County

Cross-state counties nearest Limestone County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (664). 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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