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Is Southside, AL tap water safe?

Southside Water Works and Sewer Board serves Southside, 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

Southside Water Works and Sewer Board serves Southside. In EPA’s and Alabama’s records it has 2 results 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: PFOA at 14 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from Southside Water Works and Sewer Board is hard, 144 mg/L (8.4 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 Southside Water Works and Sewer Board’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Southside

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

  • Albertville Bacteriological laboratory

    Albertville, AL · about 32 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (256) 878-3762

  • Guardian Systems

    Leeds, AL · about 40 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (205) 699-6647

  • Sutherland Environmental Testing Laboratory

    Birmingham, AL · about 52 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 Southside

Which ZIP codes are in Southside: 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.

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