Local Guides
Baldwin County is not one plumbing market. Downtown Fairhope has cast iron laterals running under lots that have been built on for a century. The beach communities run on grinder pumps and a water table close enough to the surface to matter. Bay Minette and the north end of the county get colder every winter than the coast does. Utility boundaries change with the town line, and so does the answer to who owns the pipe past the meter. These guides go town by town: what's in the ground where you live, who's responsible for which part of it, and the problems your particular street keeps having.
Where the Well Ends and the Plumbing Begins: A Baldwin County Scope Map
The boundary is the pressure tank. What Alabama licenses on the well side, what a plumber covers on the house side, and how to work out which one your symptom belongs to before you call.
Fairhope's Water Has Stopped Twice, and Neither Time Was Anybody's Plumbing
A water main broke in Fairhope during the January 2025 freeze, and five months earlier a well pump failure put the city under mandatory Phase III restrictions. How to tell a system-side outage from a house-side one, and what to do when pressure comes back.
Inland Baldwin County Is Colder Than the Beach — by 64%
Bay Minette, Loxley and Stapleton each logged 18 days at or below 32°F in 2025. Gulf Shores logged 11. Freeze risk in this county runs north, not south.
The 'Hard Freeze Warning' Was Retired in 2024. Read the New Alerts Instead.
NWS folded the Hard Freeze Warning into the Freeze Warning on October 1, 2024. What each current alert means for pipes, and how short the Baldwin County freeze window really is.
Fairhope's Median House Was Built in 1997. Fifteen Hundred of Them Weren't.
Census counts 279 Fairhope housing units built in 1939 or earlier and 1,517 built before 1970 — about one in seven. The median of 1997 hides them, and they are the houses with cast iron drain lines under them.
Polybutylene Pipe in Baldwin County: How to Identify It, and What It Does to Your Insurance
Gray plastic supply pipe, stamped PB2110, installed roughly 1978–1995. How to find it in a Baldwin County house, why the class-action money is long gone, and why Alabama's coastal insurance backstop does not cover this.
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