iVerify · County PFAS Report

Baldwin County, Alabama

PFAS in public drinking water · EPA UCMR 5 testing (2023–2025) · generated June 8, 2026

The bottom line

public water systems tested

over the 4 ppt federal limit

with no PFAS detected at all

2.84 ppt

highest reading in the county (North Baldwin Utilities)

Every public water system serving Baldwin County tested below the federal limit of 4 parts per trillion (ppt) for the two regulated forever chemicals, PFOA and PFOS. The single highest reading anywhere in the county was 2.84 ppt — about 71% of the limit. Most systems showed no PFAS at all.

Map of the county's water systems

No PFAS detected PFAS detected but under the limit

Each marker is a public water system, placed at the town it serves (approximate). Click a marker for its readings. EPA UCMR 5 does not publish exact system coordinates.

Every system, with its readings

Worst-sampling-point running annual average, in ppt. “ND” means non-detect. The limit is 4 ppt for PFOA and for PFOS.

Water system	Serves	PFOA	PFOS	Other PFAS detected	Status
North Baldwin Utilities	Bay Minette	ND	2.84	PFHxS 1.9	Under limit
Fairhope Water System (City of)	Fairhope	0.90	2.33	—	Under limit
Belforest Water System	Belforest / Daphne	0.75	0.70	PFBA 2.5, PFBS 1.9, PFPeA 0.8, PFHxA 0.7, PFHxS 0.7	Under limit
Perdido Bay Water, Sewer & Fpa	Lillian / Perdido	ND	ND	—	Under limit
Gulf Shores (Utilities Board City Of)	Gulf Shores	ND	ND	—	Under limit
Daphne (Utilities Board Of The City Of)	Daphne	ND	ND	PFPeA 0.8	Under limit
White House Water System, Inc.	Stapleton / Bay Minette	ND	ND	—	Under limit
Loxley (Town Of)	Loxley	ND	ND	—	Under limit
Orange Beach Water, Sewer And F.P.A.	Orange Beach	ND	ND	—	Under limit
East Central Baldwin County Water & Fpa	East-central Baldwin	ND	ND	—	Under limit
Foley (Utilities Board Of The City Of)	Foley	ND	ND	—	Under limit
Robertsdale (City of)	Robertsdale	ND	ND	—	Under limit
Spanish Fort Water System	Spanish Fort	ND	ND	—	Under limit

About those scary contamination maps

Maps like EWG's plot several things at once — drinking water below the proposed limit, military sites, and other known sites — so a county can look covered in dots while every drinking-water system in it is actually under the limit. That is the case for Baldwin County.

The two genuinely over-the-limit systems near Baldwin County are not in it:

Saraland Water Service (PFOS ~10.7 ppt) is in Mobile County, across the bay.
Emerald Coast Utilities (ECUA) (PFOS ~24 ppt, with very high short-chain PFAS) is in Pensacola, Florida.

What this means

PFOA and PFOS are the two PFAS the U.S. EPA limits in drinking water, at 4 ppt each, measured as a running annual average at each entry point. A handful of Baldwin systems show low, detectable levels (Fairhope, North Baldwin, Belforest) — real, but well under the limit. The rest show none.

One honest caveat: these are the results from EPA's 2023–2025 testing. PFAS levels can change over time, and the limit does not take full legal effect until 2031. Your utility publishes an annual “Consumer Confidence Report” worth a glance each year. But based on the federal testing, Baldwin County’s drinking water is within the federal standard.