Community Water System · PWS AL0000523
Valley Head Water Works Board
Operator location Valley Head, Alabama - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations) with 9 EPA violations; groundwater source; 3,075 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 3,075
- People served (this PWS)
- 9
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Valley Head Water Works Board standing, low SDWIS violation third
9 EPA SDWIS violations on record - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,441 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Valley Head Water Works Board is in the lower third by violation count (9; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is mid-pack at 3,075 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,441 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #310 of 487
- Population · AL
- 9
- Total EPA violations on record
- 11%
- 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
- 1,025
- County
- DeKalb
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 8
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2018 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Valley Head Water Works Board has 9 recorded EPA violations, 17% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 82% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 9), and it ranks #10,441 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)
9 Among the lowest violation counts fewer 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 Valley Head Water Works Board
9 violations on record for AL0000523; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
9 violations · 3,075 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
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 Valley Head Water Works Board
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