Community Water System · PWS AL0000149
Hobson City Water System
Operator location Hobson City, Alabama - 0% of 85 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); surface water source; 633 served per SDWIS.
- 633
- People served (this PWS)
- 85
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Hobson City Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 85 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #25,588 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Hobson City Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (85), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (633; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #25,588 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #475 of 487
- Population · AL
- 85
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 211
- County
- Calhoun
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 76
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 20 | 2009 |
| TTHM | MR | 18 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 18 | 2014 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 13 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Hobson City Water System has 85 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 85), and it ranks #25,588 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
85 Around the middle fewer violations than 30% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Hobson City Water System
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AL0000149.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
85 violations · 633 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Hobson City Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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