Alford, Town Of, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Alford, Town Of
Alford, Town Of serves about 497 people through 215 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Jackson County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1320011; phone on file: 850-579-2040. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.7 ppb from 3.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alford, Town Of is 49 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 49 ppb over 15 |
Against other Florida systems
Of the 1,481 Florida systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 85 have gone over at some point. Alford, Town Of's 2.2 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Florida and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Jackson County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alford, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marianna, City Of | 8,227 | 2 ppb |
| Graceville, City Of | 4,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Jackson County Utilities No. 1 | 2,205 | 7.8 ppb |
| Sneads, Town Of Water System | 1,893 | 2.2 ppb |
| Apalachee Correctional Institution | 1,756 | 1 ppb |
| Jackson Correctional Institution | 1,307 | 1 ppb |
| Grand Ridge, Town Of | 978 | 2.1 ppb |
| Cottondale Water System | 861 | 1 ppb |
| Greenwood, Town Of Water System | 692 | 3.1 ppb |
| Malone, Town Of Water System | 437 | 5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alford, FL may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Alford, Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.