Excel, Town Of, AL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2028). 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.
Excel, Town Of at a glance
Excel, Town Of serves about 3,600 people through 1,200 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 groundwater, in Monroe County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001046; phone on file: 251-765-2558. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Excel, Town Of is 18 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 9 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
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. Excel, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 26th percentile in Alabama and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Monroe County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Excel, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Monroeville, Water Works Bd. Of City Of | 9,885 | 1.4 ppb |
| Southwest Alabama Water Authority | 5,196 | 0 (not detected) |
| Uriah Water System | 3,420 | 1.5 ppb |
| Mexia Water System, Inc. | 2,532 | 1.1 ppb |
| Frisco City Water System | 2,100 | 1.9 ppb |
| Beatrice, Town Of | 1,485 | 6.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Excel, 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 Excel, Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 6590 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.