Water filtration in Loxley, AL

Loxley sits at the I-10 / Hwy 59 crossroads — exit 44 northbound from the beaches, a few miles south of Loxley Municipal Park, with the Hickory Street (US-90) area making up the older town center. Census data puts the median year built at 2011 across about 1,750 housing units, the youngest median of any city on the Baldwin list, with 31 pre-1939 structures. The average household size of 3.22 is also the largest in the Baldwin set — Loxley is materially a younger-family town than its neighbors.

The Town of Loxley Water Department was founded in 1904, which makes it one of the older utilities in the county on paper, but the physical plant has been substantially modernized. Current operations run three treatment plants and four wells in the Miocene Aquifer, serving about 10,100 residents — a service population several times the in-town count because of district reach.

Aquifer hardness and iron are the typical residential complaints, which is the standard Baldwin groundwater profile. The youngest-stock and largest-household-size combination is what makes Loxley install economics distinctive: newer Hwy 59 builds frequently spec softeners at construction rather than retrofit, which means the in-place equipment is often already sized for the household but rarely sized for the actual hardness numbers the local aquifer produces. Resizing existing softener resin or adding a polishing carbon stage is a more common conversation here than full new-install.