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Is Smiths Station, AL tap water safe?

Smiths Water & Sewer Authority serves Smiths Station, 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

Smiths Water & Sewer Authority serves Smiths Station. In EPA’s and Alabama’s records it has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 6.3 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from Smiths Water & Sewer Authority is soft, 39 mg/L (2.3 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 Smiths Water & Sewer Authority’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Smiths Station

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

  • Smiths Water Laboratory

    Smiths, AL · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (334) 290-3124

  • Environmental Resource Analysts

    Auburn, AL · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (334) 502-3444

  • Chattahoochee Valley Water Supply District

    Lanett, AL · about 24 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (334) 644-3777

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 Smiths Station

Which ZIP codes are in Smiths Station: 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 Smiths Station

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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