Community Water System · PWS AL0000351
Goodwater Wtr Works & Sewer Bd, City Of
Operator location Goodwater, Alabama - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 165 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,550 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,550
- People served (this PWS)
- 165
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Goodwater Wtr Works & Sewer Bd, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
165 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,726 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Goodwater Wtr Works & Sewer Bd, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (165), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,550 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,726 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #335 of 487
- Population · AL
- 165
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- 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
- 850
- County
- Coosa
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 144
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 48 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 48 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MCL | 6 | 2002 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 4 | 2024 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2022 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Nitrite | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 1997 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 2 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Goodwater Wtr Works & Sewer Bd, City Of has 165 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 165), and it ranks #11,726 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)
165 Higher than most more violations than 82% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Goodwater Wtr Works & Sewer Bd, City Of
165 violations on record for AL0000351; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
165 violations · 2,550 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Goodwater Wtr Works & Sewer Bd, City Of
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