Cullman, The Utilities Board Of The City, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
About Cullman, The Utilities Board Of The City
Cullman, The Utilities Board Of The City serves about 32 people through 2 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 surface water, in Cullman County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000398; phone on file: 256-734-2343. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cullman, The Utilities Board Of The City's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.86 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cullman, The Utilities Board Of The City is 1.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.86 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.75 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. Cullman, The Utilities Board Of The City's 1.3 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Alabama and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Cullman County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cullman, The Utilities Board Of The City. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cullman County Water Department | 57,006 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cullman, City Of | 36,741 | 0 (not detected) |
| V.A.W. Water System, Inc | 17,466 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Cullman Water System | 13,284 | 0.91 ppb |
| Hanceville, The Ww & Sb Of The City Of | 6,042 | 1.29 ppb |
| Joppa Hulaco & Ryan Water Authority | 5,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Johnsons Crossing Water System | 3,570 | 2.9 ppb |
| Walter Water Authority | 1,317 | 0.89 ppb |
| Garden City Water Department | 798 | 4.7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cullman, 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 Cullman, The Utilities Board Of The City 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.