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Supplying another water system

Coker Water Authority (AL0001299) identifies purchased water from the City of Tuscaloosa, sourced from Lake Tuscaloosa, in its 2026 annual report covering 2025. The documented direction is Tuscaloosa supplying Coker. Coker also lists three groundwater wells in the Coker aquifer, so this relationship does not make Tuscaloosa its sole source or identify the supply reaching a particular Coker tap.

Coker’s 2026 report, page 1, water sources and additional connections; Tuscaloosa state system record, reviewed September 17, 2026. This is a verified relationship, not a complete wholesale-customer list.

Read the system’s supply-relationship distinctions →

The City’s 2026 Annual Water Quality Report, covering 2025, identifies Lake Tuscaloosa as the primary surface-water source and Lake Nicol as the backup reservoir for TUSCALOOSA WATER & SEWER (AL0001313). Both lakes lie northeast of the city. The report describes Lake Tuscaloosa as a 5,885-acre impoundment of the North River and other creeks, holding over 40 billion gallons.

The report says the City updated its source-water assessment in 2020, identifying and inspecting potential contamination sources in the watershed. Several sites were assigned moderate susceptibility if a release occurred. That describes a potential source-water pathway; it is not a finding that a contaminant reached treated drinking water.

To request the assessment, the report directs readers to Customer Service at 2230 Gary Fitts Street or 205-248-5500. A watershed describes land draining toward a source; it does not establish which utility serves a home. Confirm your provider with your water bill or utility account.

The report lists 25 potential source locations: 20 rated low and five moderate. The moderate entries are Lake Nicol Road at Lake Nicol Dam, Rock Quarry Boat Landing, New Watermelon Road at Lake Tuscaloosa Dam, Sharpe’s Boat Landing and Deerlick West Mine. These are the assessment’s susceptibility categories, not measurements of finished drinking water.

See all 25 assessment locations and their map numbers →

Read the system’s treatment and facility details →

Source: 2026 annual report, page 1, describing 2025 and the 2020 assessment. Reviewed September 17, 2026.

Three reservoirs, different roles

The City’s Lakes Division dates Lake Tuscaloosa to 1970 and Harris Lake to 1929. Harris covers 220 acres and holds approximately 1 billion gallons; Lake Nicol covers 384 acres and holds approximately 3.3 billion gallons, with a spillway elevation of 285.2 feet. The current annual report identifies Tuscaloosa as the primary drinking-water source and Nicol as backup; the historical reports also describe Harris as an industrial supply.

The official pages disagree about Nicol’s history: the City Lakes page says it was completed in 1954, while the utility’s Your Lakes page says it was added in 1956. Neither explains whether these dates describe different milestones. Reservoir storage is distinct from the daily treatment capacity of the two plants.

City lake inventory and utility lake history, checked September 17, 2026. Historical source roles are preserved in the annual-report history.

Protecting the lakes and working along the shore

The July 2026 ADEM inspection marks raw-water quality as varying by season, but source capacity as not varying by season. It marks source-water assessments complete and notes moderate-to-severe potential contamination sources. These checkbox findings do not identify a seasonal treatment schedule, a contaminant reaching customers or a new assessment date.

July 2026 inspection, PDF page 10. The full source assessments remain separate documents.

The utility says the City designated over 1,800 acres around Harris Lake and Lake Nicol as parkland in perpetuity in 2009, protecting source water while supporting recreation. The Lakes Division maintains reservoirs and intake structures, manages shoreline vegetation and debris, places buoys and signs, and responds to spills on or near the water.

Before dredging, removing trees or building structures on City property along the lakes, contact the Lakes Division about its permits and inspections. Its resource page provides the lake permit application, authorized-agent form, dock electrical inspection checklist and electrical datum-plane guidance. These resources concern lake work; they do not establish a property’s water-service provider.

The annual report describes five treatment steps at both plants: coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection. The first steps bring small particles together and allow them to settle; filters then remove remaining material. The report says the plants operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Listed capacity is treatment capability, not the amount produced on a particular day.

After filtration, the report says water receives chlorine as sodium hypochlorite, then enters an on-site clear well. This storage gives the disinfectant contact time before the water is pumped into the distribution system. This is the report’s treatment description, not a current operational or household-water finding.

Fluoridation and corrosion control in the historical reports

The 2018 edition describes fluoride addition at both plants. At Ed Love, it identifies lime for pH adjustment and zinc polyphosphate for corrosion control; at Jerry Plott, sodium hydroxide adjusts pH and zinc phosphate is added. It also describes Ed Love’s occasional sodium permanganate use for iron, manganese, taste and odor. These dated chemical descriptions add context to monitoring results; they do not establish today’s dosing target or operating settings.

Historical treatment report. See the annual history for the original report and source-period limits.

Treatment documented in the July 2026 inspection

ADEM’s inspection lists hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide, corrosion inhibitor, sodium permanganate and fluoride at both plants. Ed Love’s form also marks lime and “PAC”; Jerry Plott’s marks caustic and lists poly aluminum chloride. The Ed Love rapid-sand filtration entry gives 6 gallons per minute per square foot. These are dated inspection entries, not household dosing instructions; the form does not state a fluoride target.

The inspection marks corrosion control implemented, required optimal water-quality parameters at the entry point, and those thresholds maintained. A separate question asking whether the system is “deemed optimized for corrosion control” is marked N/A. The annual report describes ADEM-designated optimal corrosion control; the underlying designation and parameter values are needed to explain that difference fully.

July 2026 inspection, PDF pages 7–8, 13 and 17. The chemical lists supplement the annual report’s simpler treatment narrative.

The 2026 annual report lists 725.10 miles of mains at least 4 inches in diameter, 13 water storage tanks and 10 booster pump stations. See the full distribution inventory and plant contacts.

What the state facility inventory adds

ADEM’s facility listing contains 61 records: 12 conventional filters, seven membrane filters, six basins, four intakes, two treatment plants, 14 pump-station records, 14 tank records, a common header and the distribution system. It marks 56 records “A” and five “I.” These database entries are distinct from the annual report’s physical inventory: for example, 12 pump records carry “A,” while the 2025 report lists 10 booster pump stations.

The five “I” records are Lake Harris intake, the Lake Tuscaloosa intake labeled for Jerry Plott, Rice Mine and Riverchase pump stations, and Yacht Club tank. The same listing marks Jerry Plott’s treatment plant “A.” These codes do not explain whether equipment was retired, replaced, recoded or temporarily unavailable; do not infer that the plant has stopped operating.

Review the state’s named facilities and identifiers →

ADEM Water System Facilities, independently matched to public PWSID AL0001313 and state internal record 880. The annual report and state database have different scopes and update cycles; the underlying records are needed to explain differences.

Plant checks on the inspection date

The July 2, 2026 inspection includes separate raw, settled and finished-water control tests for Ed Love and Jerry Plott. Both finished-water fluoride entries read 0.700 or .700, while finished-water pH is 7.38 at Ed Love and 7.50 at Jerry Plott. The table does not print concentration units for these columns. The entries are preserved as printed and are not presented as confirmed dosing targets or household measurements.

Review all inspection-day control-test entries and their limitations →

Flushing and distribution operations

The July 2026 inspection marks routine flushing to reduce water age, a formal flushing program and automatic flushers as present. It also marks the ability to isolate sections during breaks or emergencies. A formal leak-detection program is marked N/E, so this form does not establish whether one exists. Contact the utility or 311 about work near your property; the inspection does not provide a neighborhood flushing calendar.

The form marks no significant outages and no boil-water notices during its preceding 12-month review period. That historical entry is not a current advisory status. The same form records 27% average water loss; see the inspection findings and corrective-action context.

July 2026 inspection, PDF page 46. The form’s water-loss prompt prints “<15% recommended”; its findings page uses “no more than 15%.” Both describe a recommendation, not a contaminant limit.

Meter upgrades: what customers should expect

The City has contracted ENVOCORE to install Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) across its service area. The utility describes remote meter readings and improved leak identification as program benefits. Meters measure when and how much water is used, not how it is used. The program description does not establish installation status at your address or promise a lower bill.

The City’s April 17, 2023 water-and-sewer capital proposal identifies drinking-water work at Ed Love, Jerry Plott, Bowers Tank and Old Montgomery Highway, alongside meter and distribution-instrumentation upgrades. It is a dated funding proposal, not a construction-completion record. Its combined water-and-sewer totals include wastewater work and should not be described as spending entirely on drinking water.

Major drinking-water entries include a $12,000,803 Ed Love raw-water pump-station allocation under supplemental drinking-water revolving funds, a $10 million Jerry Plott expansion proposal and $2.5 million for raw-water line assessment and rehabilitation. The latter two appear in the proposed FY2024 ten-year-plan bond schedule. The source does not give construction completion dates or establish a new operating capacity.

See the dated project allocations and funding distinctions →

FY2023 Annual Capital Projects Proposal, pages 4–5, reviewed September 17, 2026. The schedule labels its future bond funding “2024 Bond Issuance – WS 10 Year Plan.”

What the newer budget says

The mayor’s recommended FY2027 budget continues to list completion of the first and remaining portions of the ten-year water-and-sewer capital plan as goals. It reports initiative progress of 75% and 50%, respectively, and 90% for Phase 3 of AMI. Those are the recommendation’s program-level progress entries, not verified completion percentages for the individual projects above or proof that a particular meter was replaced.

FY2027 mayor-recommended budget, pages 203–204. Recommendation status is preserved; adoption and individual project completion are not inferred.

Ask about work near your property

For the current scope, schedule or access effects of a named City capital project, contact the Office of the City Engineer at 205-248-5380 or [email protected]. The City identifies that office as managing capital projects and infrastructure improvements. For an operational water concern or a non-emergency service request, use the utility and 311 contacts. A project list is not an outage map or a notice that work affects your address.

City Engineering responsibilities and contacts, checked September 17, 2026. The utility’s project page separately highlights service-line inventory and AMI.

For help with this system, identify TUSCALOOSA WATER & SEWER and PWSID AL0001313. Have your service address and water bill available so staff can confirm the serving provider.

For help reaching the right City department, the report lists Tuscaloosa 311: dial 311 within city limits or 205-248-5311. It gives call-center hours of Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–7 p.m. Follow current official utility instructions for urgent notices; this page is not a live alert service.

Submit and follow a service request

The current 311 page identifies water and sewer as request categories. You can call, use its online form or use the free Tuscaloosa 311 app. The receiving department reviews the request, assigns and schedules work, and sends status updates if you provide an email address. Completion times vary by request type. The call center is closed on City-observed holidays.

Submit a non-emergency water or sewer service request →

Official 311 process, checked September 17, 2026. This is a non-emergency channel; an online submission does not establish immediate dispatch.

Find City announcements

The City offers an email news-release subscription through its News Alerts page. Use it to follow City announcements, and read any utility notice for its affected area, dates and specific instructions. The subscription page is a general news service; it does not promise delivery of every outage or drinking-water advisory.

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Official subscription page, checked September 17, 2026.

Drought information and local restrictions

Alabama’s Office of Water Resources publishes drought declarations and coordinates drought monitoring. Its regional drought information does not, by itself, establish a watering restriction for an AL0001313 customer. We have not verified a current Tuscaloosa utility restriction stage or an address-specific watering schedule in the reviewed utility pages. Ask Customer Service about restrictions before relying on a regional map or an older notice; absence of a posted result is not confirmation that no restrictions apply.

For general water conservation, ADECA recommends running clothes washers and dishwashers with full loads, turning off water while brushing teeth or shaving, and using a shut-off nozzle instead of leaving a hose running. These are general state tips, not a Tuscaloosa emergency order or a substitute for instructions in an active utility notice.

Official Alabama drought planning and declaration resources and ADECA conservation guidance, checked September 17, 2026. Local operating instructions must come from the serving utility.

The City’s official inventory page says it examined 55,508 privately owned service lines during summer 2024. It reports no lead lines identified and 14 galvanized-steel lines requiring replacement. This describes that inventory and its stated scope; it does not identify the material at an address you have not looked up or describe every fixture inside a building.

The live City map layer, checked September 17, 2026, contains 55,683 records with separate customer-owned and system-owned fields. One customer-owned record is classified “Galvanized Iron/Steel - Requiring Replacement”; none of the returned system-owned material categories carries that label. No lead or unknown material category was returned in either grouping. These are the map’s classifications, not independent proof of pipe material or a completed replacement program.

The map snapshot and summer 2024 summary have different dates and totals. The newer count is not used to rewrite the older inventory or infer why it grew. Verification-method fields are blank for 25,140 customer-owned and 25,135 system-owned records; a blank does not establish that no verification occurred. The most common populated method is “Visual.”

Compare all material and verification-method categories →

City “Customer/System-Owned Symbols” layer, reached through the official inventory app. Snapshot date is our retrieval date, not a utility-certified inventory revision date.

How the utility controls corrosion

ADEM’s archive includes an October 18, 2010 utility email forwarding a supplier’s October 8 recommendations for CedarClear 420, a high-orthophosphate, low-polyphosphate blend. This is historical supplier advice submitted to the agency, not the agency’s approval or evidence of today’s product, dose or operating targets.

ADEM record: October 18, 2010 email with October 8 supplier attachment. The archive labels it “Corrosion Control Minimum Standards”; the actual attachment is titled “Corrosion Control Recommendations.”

The annual report describes pH adjustment and phosphate-based corrosion inhibitors, calls this ADEM-designated optimal corrosion-control treatment, and says the City monitors ADEM-set water-quality parameters daily. It describes tap sampling for lead and copper at designated sites every three years. The report’s treatment description does not establish conditions in a particular home; its August 2023 tap statistics are explained in the detailed monitoring section.

Report page 2. The underlying ADEM treatment designation and parameter limits remain separate records. Newer August 2026 individual lead/copper samples are now available in the state submission history. The report directs requests for complete lead-tap data to [email protected].

ADEM’s latest listed total-hardness samples for this system were collected July 14, 2026. The state reports 37.800 MG/L at “ED LOVE WTP FIN,” 20.500 MG/L at “JERRY PLOT WTP” and 8.10 MG/L at “LAKE NICOL,” under analyte 1915, “HARDNESS, TOTAL (AS CACO3).” MG/L means milligrams per liter; the analyte specifies the calcium-carbonate basis.

Keep the locations separate: the Ed Love label explicitly identifies finished water, the Jerry Plott label names the treatment plant, and Lake Nicol is a source-water location. These are dated samples, not an address-level result, a system-wide average or a current softener setting. Ask the utility which plant or blend serves your address before using a measurement for household equipment.

Hardness describes dissolved minerals and is separate from drinking-water compliance. The source gives no soft/moderate/hard classification for these results, so none is assigned here. Calcium, magnesium and alkalinity are different measurements; this section does not substitute one for another or infer hardness from a single mineral.

ADEM’s total-hardness sample history for AL0001313, reviewed September 17, 2026. The complete returned history contains 118 samples from January 18, 1988 through July 14, 2026. One sample also includes a separately labeled calcium/magnesium-hardness row, preserved below.

Explore the complete hardness history by sampling location →

If you are concerned about lead and want your water tested, the annual report directs you to the City Water Business Office at 205-248-5500. Ask what testing is available for your address, how to obtain a sampling kit, whether there is a fee, and how to collect and return the sample. The report does not specify a price, turnaround time or collection protocol.

The report explains that lead can come from service lines and household plumbing, that exposure can vary over time, and that a non-detect from one sample does not establish every tap’s condition. It advises cold water for drinking, cooking and preparing baby formula; boiling does not remove lead. For sampling instructions, follow the utility or laboratory’s directions rather than adapting general flushing advice.

Report lead-health discussion and EPA lead information. Contact a health-care professional about personal health concerns.

Tuscaloosa’s municipal water service is operated by the City. The current Council page lists regular meetings every Tuesday at 5 p.m. in the second-floor Council Chambers at City Hall, 2201 University Boulevard. Committee meetings begin Tuesday afternoons at 1:30 p.m. in the Daugherty Conference Room. Special meetings have separate agendas.

The City says Council meetings are open to the public except executive sessions under the Alabama Open Meetings Act. Check the posted agenda and meeting details before attending. The annual report encourages participation on drinking-water matters and lists the City Clerk at 205-248-5010; the current Council office lists 205-248-5021.

Council meetings and contacts →

Official agendas and meeting records →

Current City Council page and agenda portal checked September 17, 2026; 2026 report, page 1. Meeting-specific participation procedures and accommodation arrangements should be confirmed with the City.

The City’s 2026 Annual Water Quality Report covers January–December 2025 for AL0001313. Its lead-and-copper tap results come from August 2023, and its UCMR 5 results cover November 2023–August 2024. Keep these periods separate when comparing results or asking the utility a question.

Read the table notes before comparing numbers

The detailed table prints turbidity of 1.037 NTU with a “No” violation cell. Its note attributes the June 19, 2025 reading to equipment error and says ADEM treated it as an operational deviation, not a treatment-technique violation. That is the annual report’s account, not an independently retrieved regulatory determination. The report also gives a highest monthly filter average of 0.084 NTU and a lowest monthly percentage meeting the limits of 99.97%.

The report’s summary inventory and detailed tables do not always match: chlorine dioxide is 650 ppb in the inventory versus 790 ppb in the detailed table; haloacetic acids are 50 ppb versus a highest locational running annual average of 44.3 ppb; total trihalomethanes are 83 ppb versus 67.3 ppb on that average basis. Use each number with its own table label. The report does not explain the chlorine-dioxide difference, and the different statistics cannot be combined into a trend.

The report's other monitoring narrative describes earlier PFAS testing at both plants on March 30, 2021, and routine Cryptosporidium/Giardia source-water monitoring at Lake Tuscaloosa and Lake Nicol. Those non-detection statements lack individual results or reporting limits in the report; they do not establish water conditions at your tap. Its general health guidance directs people with weakened immune systems, some older people and infants to their healthcare providers, and gives EPA's Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 800-426-4791.

Check the system's result tables and report notes →

Source: City of Tuscaloosa 2026 annual report, page 2. Original source bytes rechecked September 17, 2026 against the preserved report. These are historical public-system records; they do not determine conditions at a particular tap.

The City archive has annual editions from 2017–2026, covering reporting years 2016–2025. Use the reporting year and each table's sampling period when comparing them. The 2018 monitoring gap, 2022 HAA5 notice and 2023 turbidity event below explain three important changes; the system page has the original rows and notes from each edition. Historical notices do not replace current utility notice and contact channels.

The 2024 report lists 720.30 miles of mains, 14 tanks and 26.4 million gallons of storage. The 2025 reporting-period inventory lists 725.10 miles, 13 tanks and 22.3 million gallons. The reports do not explain that storage difference, so it is not evidence by itself that capacity was removed. Likewise, different sample periods, statistics and units must remain separate when comparing contaminant results.

2018 monitoring gap

The 2019 annual report says required turbidity monitoring was incomplete on July 10, 2018, so the utility could not be sure of water quality during that time. A monitoring gap is different from a measured exceedance. The report also describes lead/copper testing at 107 homes with no detectable lead; that statement does not establish conditions in every home.

2022 HAA5 notice

The 2023 annual report includes a historical HAA5 notice for January–March 2022: a locational running annual average of 0.061 mg/L at 1534 Derrick Road, above the 0.060 mg/L limit. Its annual table separately reports an average of 33.3 µg/L, a 0.0–57.0 range and “Yes” in the violation column. Those statistics describe different calculations. The notice described flushing and treatment testing to reduce disinfection by-products; it is not a current advisory.

2023 turbidity and notification history

The 2024 annual report describes an August 2023 turbidity treatment-technique violation and failure to notify within 24 hours. Its turbidity row nevertheless prints “No.” The report says subsequent monitoring and follow-up did not indicate contamination and Ed Love disinfection was not interrupted; those are attributed historical statements. The state detail separately records compliance achieved on September 28, 2023 and an analysis result of 1.152 NTU; see the regulatory-history section for the dated actions, reviewed September 6 agency letter and unresolved numerical difference. The letter's attached notice and certification templates do not establish delivery to customers. This historical report is not a current advisory.

The 2024 report’s fluoride row illustrates why the notes matter: its highest-value cell says 0.060 mg/L, while its range says 0.57–0.60 and the primary inventory says 0.60. The detailed system history preserves all three. Its lead-and-copper table is separately dated 2023; those cells should not be substituted for the later report’s household-tap statistics.

Sources: official annual-report archive, 2025 edition covering 2024 and 2026 edition covering 2025. The 2020 gross-alpha range has one unreadable digit in the published image. Its cell is marked in the 2020 records rather than guessed.

EPA's final UCMR 5 release lists 240 results for AL0001313from the Ed Love and Jerry Plott plant entry points, collected between November 2023 and August 2024. All 29 PFAS analytes and lithium are marked below their own reporting levels. Lithium is not PFAS, and a result below a reporting level is not a zero measurement.

These plant-entry samples cannot tell you what is at your tap today. If you want to compare a particular analyte, use the system records for its facility, collection date, units and reporting level.

Compare PFAS and lithium results by plant and date →

EPA UCMR occurrence data, July 2026 final release, retrieved September 17, 2026; EPA data summary and field definitions, pages 2, 6 and 17. These are the results for AL0001313 in that release; other monitoring programs are covered in their own sections. The utility’s “Zero Forever Chemicals” wording is not adopted as a finding of chemical absence.

The City’s linked schedule is effective October 1, 2025, checked September 17, 2026. Water bills combine a meter-size administration charge and consumption charges; sewer and other billed services are separate. The smallest printed meter category has a $14.78 water administration charge and $17.14 sewer charge, totaling $31.92 before the schedule’s water-administration tax and consumption charges.

The schedule prices water at $3.609 and sewer at $4.450 per 100 cubic feet. Its residential sewer note caps billed consumption at 2,500 cubic feet. The billing page describes meter units of 10 cubic feet, equal to 74.8 gallons; compare quantities on the same basis before checking a bill. The schedule’s 4% tax note applies to water and Rural Water Authority administration charges.

The separate police-jurisdiction schedule lists $4.511 for water and $5.563 for sewer per 100 cubic feet. Its smallest administration category totals $39.91 ($18.48 water and $21.43 sewer), before applicable tax and consumption. Ask the Water Business Office which schedule applies to your service address and account history; the mailing city alone is not enough.

See every meter-size charge, service fee and leak-relief condition →

Sources: full FY2026 schedule, billing instructions, development service fees, residential adjustment ordinance and customer forms. These prices and program statements do not describe drinking-water quality. Other affordability programs remain under review.

ADEM Drinking Water Watch lists 12 historical violation records for AL0001313 in the September 17, 2026 snapshot: two group records and ten individual records, numbered from 2009 through 2025. Their 41 dated actions help show what the agency asked for and what it later recorded. This is history, not a live advisory feed or a finding about a particular tap.

Read all 12 records and 41 dated actions →

Identity independently matched in ADEM and EPA’s water-system record. ADEM internal record 880 is distinct from public identifier AL0001313. Source data can change after retrieval; underlying notices, orders and later case updates remain to be reviewed.

ADEM lists 47 site visits dated June 27, 1990 through July 2, 2026. Nine have reason code SNSV, alongside operational, technical and other visit codes. ADEM explains that sanitary surveys evaluate a system’s ability to provide water and identify existing or potential sanitary risks; a visit listing is not the underlying inspection report.

The latest listed visit, July 2, 2026, has reason SITE, severity MIN, one deficiency found and one resolved. The latest SNSV-coded visit, February 27, 2025, has severity REC and zero found/resolved counts. Some entries combine a severity code with zero counts; the listing alone cannot explain a finding or a repair.

July 2026 findings and repairs

ADEM’s July 30, 2026 letter encloses its July 2 inspection. The findings page identifies no significant deficiencies and two minor deficiencies: a missing overflow flapper at West End Tank and a missing ladder-guard lock at Ridgeland Tank. It states that photographic evidence demonstrated both repairs were complete and that no further action was required for those repairs. This is a documented correction, not a claim that the system has no other issues.

The same page calculates average monthly water loss over the previous 12 months at 27%, using Monthly Operational Reports, and recommends no more than 15%. This is a water-loss recommendation, distinct from a contaminant measurement or drinking-water limit. The listing’s one-found/one-resolved counts do not reproduce the report’s two named deficiencies; both source representations are retained.

July 2026 annual inspection, cover letter and findings (PDF pages 1–2). Retrieved September 17, 2026. The repair statement applies to the two tank findings; it does not say the water-loss recommendation has been met.

February 2025 sanitary survey and follow-up

The underlying survey covers February 26–27, 2025; ADEM sent it with a May 30 letter. It identifies no significant deficiencies and one minor deficiency: the Lake Tuscaloosa intake pump-house sump pump was out of service for repairs. The findings page says the utility supplied proof on May 27, 2025 that a new pump was installed and working, with no further corrective action required for that finding. The summary visit row’s zero counts do not reproduce this corrected finding.

The report also records six recommendations and observations covering tank cleaning, log signatures and dates, chemical secondary containment, pH-buffer bottles, threaded hose bibs and water loss. It calculated approximately 22% average water loss for the preceding 12 months and recommended no more than 15%. The 2026 inspection’s 27% figure covers a later review window; neither finding establishes today’s loss rate.

2025 survey cover letter and findings, PDF pages 1–2, retrieved September 17, 2026. The dated report provides more detail than the summary visit row.

Read the dated visit history and its limits →

ADEM site visits and state explanation of site visits, retrieved 2026-09-17. This includes all 47 rows returned by that query; it does not establish that every agency visit has a published row.

August 2026 samples filed in September

ADEM's September 16, 2026 submission lists 51 tap samples collected August 17–26, 2026. They are newer than the August 2023 tap statistics in the City's annual report. The submission gives individual lead and copper results, not a published 2026 system-wide 90th-percentile determination or a result for an unsampled home.

ADEM EDWRS submission, September 16, 2026, 11:59:06; 26 pages. Reporting lab: 40170 (STATE). The state analyte list labels code 1022 “COPPER, FREE” and 1030 “LEAD.” Sampling-point identifiers do not provide a property address or prove conditions at an unsampled tap.

Review all 51 sample records, their qualifiers and the older summaries →

Earlier monitoring-period summaries

ADEM lists 64 lead/copper summary records with monitoring periods beginning in 1992–2023. ADEM describes these as 90th-percentile summaries and labels the measurement column mg/L. The table includes sample counts, zero values, blank fields and multiple entries for some periods; a reported zero is not a claim that every household has zero lead exposure.

For January–December 2023, the state lists 56 samples and copper at 0.054 mg/L, with lead at 0 mg/L. The latest annual report’s August 2023 note gives copper’s 90th percentile as 0.056 ppm and lead below 1.0 ppb. Although mg/L and ppm are equivalent for these report comparisons, the copper numbers and period labels differ. Neither source has been overwritten to force agreement.

Read the 64 state summaries and compare their periods →

Full-date-range state query and ADEM’s explanation of the 90th-percentile summaries, retrieved 2026-09-17. No later period was returned by this query; that does not establish that later sampling did not occur.