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Community Water System · PWS AL0000951

Union Grove Utility Board

Operator location Union Grove, Alabama - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 113 EPA violations; surface water source; 3,045 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

3,045
People served (this PWS)
113
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Union Grove Utility Board standing, high SDWIS violation third

113 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 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,493 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Union Grove Utility Board sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (113), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,045 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,493 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#313 of 487
Population · AL
113
Total EPA violations on record
4%
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
1,015
County
Marshall
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
107
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MR 50 2021
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 50 2021
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2009
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 4 2022
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2021

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Union Grove Utility Board has 113 recorded EPA violations, 76% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 113), and it ranks #10,493 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)

113 Higher than most more violations than 76% 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 Union Grove Utility Board

113 violations on record for AL0000951; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

113 violations · 3,045 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Union Grove Utility Board

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Alabama compares on the same EPA violation measures. Alabama systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater