Community Water System · PWS AL0000363
Florala Water Works & Sewer Board
Operator location Florala, Alabama - larger served population (> 3,309) at 3,834 people served; 77 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 3,834
- People served (this PWS)
- 77
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Florala Water Works & Sewer Board standing, high SDWIS violation third
3,834 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #9,121 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Florala Water Works & Sewer Board sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (77), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (3,834; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,121 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #273 of 487
- Population · AL
- 77
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- 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
- 1,278
- County
- Covington
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 69
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 28 | 2010 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Public Notice | Other | 6 | 2011 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2002 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Endothall | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Chlordane | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Diquat | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2003 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Florala Water Works & Sewer Board has 77 recorded EPA violations, 67% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 77), and it ranks #9,121 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)
77 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Florala Water Works & Sewer Board
EPA SDWIS lists 3,834 people served and 1,278 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
77 violations · 3,834 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 similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Florala Water Works & Sewer Board
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