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Is Hazel Green, AL tap water safe?

Madison County Water Department serves Hazel Green, 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

Madison County Water Department serves Hazel Green. In EPA’s and Alabama’s records it has 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 5.0 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from Madison County Water Department is hard, 122 mg/L (7.1 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 Madison County Water Department’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Hazel Green

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 Hazel Green, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Limestone County Bacteriological Laboratory

    Athens, AL · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (256) 233-6445 ext. 125

  • Pace Analytical National Decatur

    Decatur, AL · about 37 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (256) 350-0846

  • Southern Environmental Testing

    Decatur, AL · about 39 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (256) 280-2567

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 Hazel Green

Which ZIP codes are in Hazel Green: 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 Hazel Green

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

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