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Jefferson County, AL drinking water systems

13 community water systems serve Jefferson County, AL, reporting 828,786 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

1 of them (8%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 5 systems still have one unresolved.

3 rely mainly on groundwater and 10 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 129 lead lines, 397 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 95,789 lines of unknown material.

1 more system is placed in Jefferson 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
13
People served, sum of each system's own figure
828,786
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
1
Systems with one unresolved
5
Lead service lines in inventories
129

Water systems serving Jefferson County

13 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
Central Alabama Water System Birmingham, Hoover and 22 more 585,000 Surface water 0 1 129
Bessemer Water Service Bessemer, Hueytown and 6 more 86,091 Purchased surface water 0 1 0
Warrior River Water Authority Bessemer and land outside it 38,700 Surface water 1 1 0
City of Trussville, Ub of the Trussville, Argo and 1 more 36,300 Groundwater 0 0 0
Leeds Water Works Board Leeds and Moody 21,300 Groundwater 0 0 0
City of Helena, the Ub of the Helena and Hoover 21,300 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Irondale Water System Irondale 10,098 Groundwater 0 0 0
Graysville Water Board Adamsville, Graysville and 1 more 9,288 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Sumiton Water Works Board Sumiton and Sipsey and land outside them 5,994 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Mulga Water Department Sylvan Springs, Concord and 3 more 5,991 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Town of West Jefferson Water System West Jefferson and land outside it 3,243 Purchased surface water 0 1 0
Brookside Water Works Brookside and Adamsville 2,865 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Remlap Pine Mtn Water Authority Remlap 2,616 Purchased surface water 0 1 0

Systems placed by county record in Jefferson County

1 system

EPA has no service area map for this system. 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
City of Bessemer,Gusc of the County on record 32 Surface water 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Jefferson County

40 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