Fort Rucker -American Water Enterprises, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 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.
Fort Rucker -American Water Enterprises at a glance
Fort Rucker -American Water Enterprises serves about 16,774 people through 3,667 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Dale County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001489; phone on file: 334-503-1761. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Rucker -American Water Enterprises is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 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. Fort Rucker -American Water Enterprises's 1.1 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Alabama and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Dale County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Rucker -American Water Enterprises. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ozark Utilities Board | 19,965 | 0 (not detected) |
| Daleville, The Wwsb Of The City Of | 10,014 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dale County Water Authority | 7,779 | 1.2 ppb |
| Level Plains, Town Of | 3,819 | 0 (not detected) |
| Midland City Water Department | 3,300 | 1.5 ppb |
| Newton, The Ww And Sb Of The Town Of | 2,466 | 9.5 ppb |
| Napier Field Water System | 2,382 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pinckard, Town Of | 1,377 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ariton Water Works Board, Town Of | 1,263 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ft. Rucker, 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 Fort Rucker -American Water Enterprises 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.