Gordon, Town Of, AL
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.8 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Gordon, Town Of
Gordon, Town Of serves about 414 people through 157 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 groundwater, in Houston County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000685; phone on file: 334-522-3113. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Gordon, Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (11.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gordon, Town Of is 11.8 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.7 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. Gordon, Town Of's 11.8 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Alabama and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Houston County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gordon, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dothan Utilities, City Of | 97,146 | 3.2 ppb |
| Taylor, City Of | 9,339 | 7.3 ppb |
| Houston County Water Authority | 4,902 | 1.1 ppb |
| Ashford Water Works, City Of | 3,816 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cottonwood, Town Of | 3,570 | 1.7 ppb |
| Cowarts Water System, Town Of | 2,469 | 1.2 ppb |
| Kinsey Water System | 2,010 | 1.3 ppb |
| Webb Water System | 1,521 | 2.7 ppb |
| Columbia Water Works | 1,179 | 1 ppb |
| Avon Water System | 495 | 0.7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gordon, 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 Gordon, Town Of 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.