Glen Allen Water Department, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Glen Allen Water Department serves about 1,500 people through 500 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Fayette County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000598; phone on file: 205-487-2014. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.9 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Glen Allen Water Department is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Glen Allen Water Department's 1.9 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Alabama and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Fayette County
4 other systems share Fayette County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Glen Allen Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fayette Water Works Board | 8,142 | 0 (not detected) |
| Berry, Town Of | 4,887 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fayette Co., Water Coord. & F. P. A. | 4,386 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belk Water System | 894 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glen Allen, 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 Glen Allen Water Department 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.