Community Water System · PWS FL1070014
Altha, Town of Water System
Operator location Altha, Florida - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 800 people served; 75 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 800
- People served (this PWS)
- 75
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Altha, Town of Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
800 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #22,412 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Altha, Town of Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (75), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (800; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #22,412 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #729 of 905
- Population · FL
- 75
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- 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
- 280
- County
- Calhoun
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 61
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2008 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 1987 |
| Fluoride | MR | 5 | 1987 |
| Cadmium | MR | 5 | 1987 |
| Barium | MR | 5 | 1987 |
| Mercury | MR | 5 | 1987 |
| Arsenic | MR | 5 | 1987 |
| Selenium | MR | 5 | 1987 |
| Chromium | MR | 5 | 1987 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2003 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| E. COLI | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2018 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 1999 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Altha, Town of Water System has 75 recorded EPA violations, 67% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 33% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 75), and it ranks #22,412 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)
75 Around the middle fewer violations than 33% 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 Altha, Town of Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 800 people served and 280 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
75 violations · 800 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 smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Altha, Town of Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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