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Is Orange Beach, AL tap water safe?

Orange Beach Water Sewer and F.P.A. serves Orange Beach, 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

Orange Beach Water Sewer and F.P.A. serves Orange Beach. In EPA’s and Alabama’s records it has nothing above a health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

That data covers what its report lists, not everything.

The water from Orange Beach Water Sewer and F.P.A. is soft, 12 mg/L (0.7 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.

Water testing near Orange Beach

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

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 Orange Beach

Which ZIP codes are in Orange Beach: 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 Orange Beach

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

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