Community Water System · PWS AL0000404
Garden City Water Department
Operator location Garden City, Alabama - 46% of 24 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 780 served per SDWIS.
- 780
- People served (this PWS)
- 24
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Garden City Water Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third
46% of 24 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 46% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #22,935 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Garden City Water Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (24), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (780; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 46% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #22,935 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #463 of 487
- Population · AL
- 24
- Total EPA violations on record
- 46%
- 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
- 264
- County
- Cullman
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 11
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 9 | 2009 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 1991 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Garden City Water Department has 24 recorded EPA violations, 36% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 63% carry more. 46% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 24), and it ranks #22,935 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)
24 Lower than most fewer violations than 63% 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 Garden City Water Department
11 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AL0000404.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
24 violations · 780 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Garden City Water Department
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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