Goshen Water Works Dist System, AL
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 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.
Who runs the water here
Goshen Water Works Dist System serves about 438 people through 146 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 Pike County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001114; phone on file: 334-484-3246. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 7.8 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Goshen Water Works Dist System is 11 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Goshen Water Works Dist System compares
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. Goshen Water Works Dist System's 11 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Alabama and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Pike County
4 other systems share Pike County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Goshen Water Works Dist System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Troy Utilities, City Of | 23,523 | 1 ppb |
| Pike County Water Authority | 12,021 | 0.99 ppb |
| Brundidge Water Department, City Of | 3,057 | 0.57 ppb |
| Banks Water System | 1,260 | 1.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Goshen, 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 Goshen Water Works Dist System 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.