Hawk Pride Mt Water System, AL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Hawk Pride Mt Water System at a glance
Hawk Pride Mt Water System serves about 4,035 people through 1,355 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Colbert County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000316. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Hawk Pride Mt Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.77 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hawk Pride Mt Water System is 2.89 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.77 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.31 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.89 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. Hawk Pride Mt Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 28th percentile in Alabama and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Colbert County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hawk Pride Mt Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Muscle Shoals Utility Board | 22,467 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tuscumbia Water Works | 16,539 | 1.86 ppb |
| Sheffield Utilities, City Of Sheffield | 13,758 | 1.8 ppb |
| Colbert County Rural Water System | 13,449 | 0.52 ppb |
| Spring Valley Water Authority | 5,520 | 0 (not detected) |
| Littleville Water Works | 3,576 | 0.2 ppb |
| Cherokee Water & Gas Department | 1,992 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lagrange Mountain Water Authority | 1,242 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leighton, Wsb Of The Town Of | 1,203 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Tuscumbia, AL
Look up your address in Hawk Pride Mt Water System'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 Hawk Pride Mt Water 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.