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Marshall County, Alabama

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet AL095 · Marshall County 9 sys · 437 viol · #462/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 4.6% health
  • RANK-TOP #462/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 85.7% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 89%
  • SYS-TINY 9 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, Marshall County ranks #462 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #12 of 67 counties in Alabama. See methodology · corpus placement.

Marshall 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 4.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 85.7% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #462 of 3,254 · #12 of 67 in Alabama.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Marshall County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Marshall 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
Arab, Water Works Board of the City Of 34,800 4 Detected
Albertville, Municipal Ub of the City Of 29,367 75 Detected
Douglas Water Authority 16,632 186 Clean
North Marshall Utilities 15,300 9 Detected
Boaz Water & Sewer Board 15,000 10 Detected
Guntersville, the Wwsb of the City Of 13,374 13 Detected
Asbury Water System 3,906 9 Detected
Union Grove Utility Board 3,045 113 -
Swearengin Water System 2,520 18 -

Compare beyond Alabama

Mid-flagged peers for Marshall County

Cross-state counties nearest Marshall County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (437). 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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