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Etowah County, AL drinking water systems

16 community water systems serve Etowah County, AL, reporting 119,338 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

1 of them (6%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 1 system still has one unresolved.

9 rely mainly on groundwater and 7 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 14 lead lines, 13,960 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 2,630 lines of unknown material.

1 more system is placed in Etowah County, AL by the county its records name because it has no service area map that lines up with its own records, so it is listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
16
People served, sum of each system's own figure
119,338
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
1
Systems with one unresolved
1
Lead service lines in inventories
14

Water systems serving Etowah County

16 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
City of Gadsden, the WWSB of the Gadsden 44,637 Surface water 0 0 8
Town of Rainbow City, WWB of the Rainbow City 12,363 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
Southside Water Works and Sewer Board Southside 12,327 Groundwater 0 0 6
Attalla Water Works Board Attalla and Ivalee 8,403 Groundwater under direct influence 0 0 0
West Etowah Water & Fire Pro Authority Egypt and Attalla 6,900 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Glencoe Water Works Board Glencoe 6,465 Groundwater 0 0 0
Hokes Bluff Water Board Hokes Bluff and Tidmore Bend 5,536 Groundwater 0 0 0
Sardis City Water Board Sardis City, Whitesboro and 2 more 5,328 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Northeast Etowah County Water Co-Op Tidmore Bend, Coats Bend and 1 more 4,275 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Highland Water Authority Lookout Mountain and Gadsden 3,963 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Whorton Bend Water Authority Gadsden and land outside it 2,610 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Big Wills Water & Fire Pro Authority Carlisle-Rockledge, Whitesboro and 1 more 2,301 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Walnut Grove Walnut Grove 1,227 Groundwater 0 1 0
Tillison Bend Water Authority Gadsden and land outside it 1,074 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
Altoona Water & Sewer Board Altoona 1,068 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Reece City Reece City and Attalla 861 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Etowah County

1 system

The service area map EPA has for this system does not line up with its own records. It is placed by the county its records name (the counties EPA lists it serving, or the county coded in its ID where EPA lists none), and without a map it is not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Fords Valley & Hwy 278 Water County on record 5,616 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Etowah County

17 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations