Ethan Meadows S/D, AL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Ethan Meadows S/D serves about 51 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wake County, Alabama. EPA system ID: NC4092144; phone on file: 877-511-2911. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Ethan Meadows S/D's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ethan Meadows S/D is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Alabama systems
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. Ethan Meadows S/D's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Alabama and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Wake County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ethan Meadows S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Blaney Farms S/D | 395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Olde Mill Trace S/D | 394 | 4 ppb |
| Kanata Mills S/D | 341 | 1.5 ppb |
| Mornington S/D | 218 | 2.8 ppb |
| Twin Lake Farm S/D | 208 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camberly S/D | 203 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bella Vista S/D | 186 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson Manor S/D | 175 | 3.6 ppb |
| Fish Hawk Ranch S/D | 171 | 3 ppb |
| Yates Mill Estates | 145 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Ethan Meadows S/D's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Ethan Meadows S/D 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.