Harpersville Water Board, AL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Harpersville Water Board
Harpersville Water Board serves about 2,550 people through 850 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 groundwater, in Shelby County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001156; phone on file: 205-672-9961. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Harpersville Water Board is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 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. Harpersville Water Board's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in Alabama and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Shelby County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Harpersville Water Board. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Alabaster Water Department, City Of | 40,986 | 1.1 ppb |
| Shelby County Commission-Water Services | 40,101 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pelham, City Of | 38,703 | 0 (not detected) |
| Calera, The Wwb Of Te City Of | 26,982 | 0 (not detected) |
| Helena, The Ub Of The City Of | 21,300 | 1.1 ppb |
| Columbiana, The Ww Board Of The Town Of | 12,903 | 10 ppb |
| Montevallo Water Works & Sewer Board | 10,746 | 1.5 ppb |
| Bethel Water System, Inc. | 4,398 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sterrett-Vandiver Water System, Inc. | 3,252 | 1 ppb |
| Wilton Water Works | 3,000 | 2.8 ppb |
Next steps for Harpersville, AL
Look up your address in Harpersville Water Board's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Harpersville Water Board 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.