Community Water System · PWS AL0000589
Reece City (Town Of)
Operator location Attalla, Alabama - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 861 people served; 51 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 861
- People served (this PWS)
- 51
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Reece City (Town Of) standing, mid SDWIS violation third
861 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #21,615 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Reece City (Town Of) lands in the middle third by violation volume (51), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (861; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #21,615 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #454 of 487
- Population · AL
- 51
- Total EPA violations on record
- 16%
- 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
- 287
- County
- Etowah
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 42
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 15 | 2013 |
| TTHM | MR | 15 | 2013 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2012 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 4 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 1995 |
| TTHM | MCL | 4 | 2007 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Reece City (Town Of) has 51 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 51), and it ranks #21,615 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)
51 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% 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 Reece City (Town Of)
EPA SDWIS lists 861 people served and 287 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
51 violations · 861 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 Reece City
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