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Is Alabaster, AL tap water safe?

City of Alabaster Water Department serves Alabaster, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Alabama’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

City of Alabaster Water Department serves Alabaster. In EPA’s and Alabama’s records it has 1 result above the legal limit, 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 54.4 ppb, above the legal limit.

The water from City of Alabaster Water Department is very hard, 195 mg/L (11.4 grains per gallon). How Alabama’s water compares.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Alabaster Water Department’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Alabaster

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Alabama certifies.

The 3 labs Alabama certifies closest to Alabaster, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Living Water Services

    Alabaster, AL · about 2 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (205) 985-2113

  • Safety Environmental Services

    Pelham, AL · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (205) 823-6200

  • Sutherland Environmental Testing Laboratory

    Birmingham, AL · about 20 miles

    (205) 581-9500

Alabama Department of Public Health: Bacteria testing for private wells. Call your county health department to have an environmentalist collect the sample, or collect it yourself in a container from the county health department; there may be a collection fee and a testing fee. Well Water, Alabama Department of Public Health.

All 64 certified labs for Alabama

ZIP codes in Alabaster

Which ZIP codes are in Alabaster: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: ADEM, certified bacteriological, chemical and PFAS drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Alabaster

Other towns in Shelby County with a page of their own.

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