Drinking water quality · 2024
· Verified
· PWSID AL0001070
What's in Montgomery, AL tap water
F
Water quality score
36/ 100Poor
3 contaminants in Montgomery, AL's water sat at or above a federal limit, led by Pentachlorophenol at 40.0x the limit.
- !3 contaminants at or above a federal limit — worst is Pentachlorophenol at 40.0x
- !1 contaminant within 20% of a limit
- !20 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 7 never appear in this report
- ✓No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −60 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −4 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −0 open health-based violations
- −0 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −0 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −0 core regulated contaminants never reported (20/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →What to worry about
- Pentachlorophenol40.0× the federal limit0.04 mg/L · limit 0.001 mg/L
- Cis Dichloroethylene 122.9× the federal limit0.2 mg/L · limit 0.07 mg/L
- Hexachlorocyclopentadiene2.0× the federal limit0.1 mg/L · limit 0.05 mg/L
- Chlorite97% of the federal limit0.97 mg/L · limit 1 mg/L
higher than 95% of U.S. systems
+66 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Fluoride | 1.96 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Combined Radium | 1.5 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Gross Alpha | 1.2 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| Nitrate | 0.5 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Barium | 0.1 mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Nitrate Nitrite | 0.5 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Chlorine | 400 | — |
| Cyanide | Not detected mg/L | 0.2 mg/L |
| Nitrite | Not detected mg/L | 1 mg/L |
| Antimony | Not detected mg/L | 0.006 mg/L |
| Arsenic | Not detected mg/L | 0.01 mg/L |
| Beryllium | Not detected mg/L | 0.004 mg/L |
| Cadmium | Not detected mg/L | 0.005 mg/L |
| Mercury | Not detected mg/L | 0.002 mg/L |
| Nickel | Not detected | — |
| Selenium | Not detected mg/L | 0.05 mg/L |
| Thallium | Not detected mg/L | 0.002 mg/L |
| Total Coliform | 1 % | — |
| Alachlor | Not detected mg/L | 0.002 mg/L |
| Carbofuran | Not detected mg/L | 0.04 mg/L |
| Carbon Tetrachloride | Not detected mg/L | 0.005 mg/L |
| Chlordane | Not detected mg/L | 0.002 mg/L |
| Chlorobenzene | Not detected mg/L | 0.1 mg/L |
| Chromium | Not detected mg/L | 0.1 mg/L |
| Deha | Not detected mg/L | 0.4 mg/L |
| Dehp | Not detected mg/L | 0.006 mg/L |
| Dichloroethane 12 | Not detected mg/L | 0.005 mg/L |
| Dichloroethylene 11 | Not detected mg/L | 0.007 mg/L |
| Dichloropropane 12 | Not detected mg/L | 0.005 mg/L |
| Dinoseb | Not detected mg/L | 0.007 mg/L |
| Diquat | Not detected mg/L | 0.02 mg/L |
| Endothall | Not detected mg/L | 0.1 mg/L |
| Endrin | Not detected mg/L | 0.002 mg/L |
| Glyphosate | Not detected mg/L | 0.7 mg/L |
| Heptachlor | Not detected mg/L | 0.0004 mg/L |
| Heptachlor Epoxide | Not detected mg/L | 0.0002 mg/L |
| Hexachlorobenzene | Not detected mg/L | 0.001 mg/L |
| Lindane | Not detected mg/L | 0.0002 mg/L |
| Methoxychlor | Not detected mg/L | 0.04 mg/L |
| O Dichlorobenzene | Not detected mg/L | 0.6 mg/L |
| Oxamyl | Not detected mg/L | 0.2 mg/L |
| P Dichlorobenzene | Not detected mg/L | 0.075 mg/L |
| Pcb Total | Not detected mg/L | 0.0005 mg/L |
| Picloram | Not detected mg/L | 0.5 mg/L |
| Styrene | Not detected mg/L | 0.1 mg/L |
| Toxaphene | Not detected mg/L | 0.003 mg/L |
| Trans Dichloroethylene 12 | Not detected mg/L | 0.1 mg/L |
| Trichlorobenzene 124 | Not detected mg/L | 0.07 mg/L |
| Trichloroethane 111 | Not detected mg/L | 0.2 mg/L |
| Twofourd | Not detected mg/L | 0.07 mg/L |
| Vinyl Chloride | Not detected mg/L | 0.002 mg/L |
| TOC | 2 | — |
| Turbidity | 0.1 | — |
| Atrazine | Not detected mg/L | 0.003 mg/L |
| Benzene | Not detected mg/L | 0.005 mg/L |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | Not detected mg/L | 0.0002 mg/L |
| Dalapon | Not detected ug/L | 200 ug/L |
| DBCP | Not detected mg/L | 0.0002 mg/L |
| Dichloromethane | Not detected mg/L | 0.005 mg/L |
| Ethylbenzene | Not detected mg/L | 0.7 mg/L |
| Ethylene dibromide | Not detected | 50 |
| Simazine | Not detected mg/L | 0.004 mg/L |
| Tetrachloroethylene | Not detected ug/L | 5 ug/L |
| Toluene | Not detected mg/L | 1 mg/L |
| Trichloroethylene | Not detected ug/L | 5 ug/L |
| Xylenes | Not detected ug/L | 10000 ug/L |
What this report doesn't tell you
7 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Montgomery, AL's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.
LeadCopperTrihalomethanes (TTHM)Haloacetic acids (HAA5)ChromiumUraniumPFAS
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record
Where your water comes from · EPA SDWIS
Montgomery, AL's drinking water comes from ground water, drawn from 40 sources.
Source
40ground water
- WELL · 25
- SOUTH · 10
- CT PERRY INTAKE
- HORSE FARM WELL
- + 3 more
Treatment
7treatment plants
- C.T. PERRY WTP
- DAY STREET WTP
- HORSE FARM WTP
- + 4 more
Distribution
17storage units
Source: EPA SDWIS facilities inventory. Methodology.
Compliance history
Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.
No federal drinking-water violations on record for this system.
Source: Montgomery, AL's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report — the annual drinking-water report every U.S. utility is required to publish. The numbers on this page are the utility's own. A water-quality report covers an entire service area, not a single address.
The grade at the top of this page is computed, not editorial. See exactly how we grade water systems — every deduction, every ceiling, every threshold.
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