As Birmingham Water Works (BWWB) continues to make headlines with billing issues plaguing customers and the recent resignation of their board’s chairman, people may be unaware that there are 10 other smaller systems also serving Jefferson County.

Those systems, ranging from 32 customers to nearly 40,000 customers, are different from BWWB in more than size. Among them, they report few customer billing issues, -although many lack websites and couldn’t be reached for comment. But in many documented cases, they have already enacted the “smart meter” technology some suggest would simplify the larger utility’s problems with getting water meters read accurately and in a timely manner.

Trussville Utilities General Manager Mike Strength said that the large selection of water systems in Jefferson County is a result of smaller municipalities maintaining systems they previously operated, even as larger entities such as BWWB and Trussville Utilities consolidated smaller services around them.

Read below to see where your water comes from and other details about the systems that serve you.

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