Bridgeport Utilities Board, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.79 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Bridgeport Utilities Board at a glance
Bridgeport Utilities Board serves about 5,505 people through 1,835 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Jackson County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000713; phone on file: 256-495-2471. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.32 ppb from 2.11 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bridgeport Utilities Board is 2.11 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.79 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.11 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.39 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 542 Alabama systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 1 are over 15 ppb right now and 11 have gone over at some point. Bridgeport Utilities Board's 0.79 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Alabama and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Jackson County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bridgeport Utilities Board. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Section & Dutton, Water Works Bd. Of | 35,259 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dekalb-Jackson Water Supply District | 32,421 | 1.5 ppb |
| Scottsboro Water Sewer & Gb | 22,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson County Water Authority | 7,968 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cumberland Mountain Water & Fpa | 5,880 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stevenson, Util. Board Of The Town Of | 4,101 | 0.7 ppb |
| Pisgah Water Department | 1,407 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bluff Creek Mobile Home Park | 124 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bridgeport, AL 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 Bridgeport Utilities Board 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.