Helena, The Ub Of The City Of, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 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. 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
Helena, The Ub Of The City Of serves about 21,300 people through 7,100 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Shelby County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001157; phone on file: 205-663-1670. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Helena, The Ub Of The City Of is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Helena, The Ub Of The City Of's 1.1 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Alabama and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Shelby County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Helena, The Ub Of The City Of. 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) |
| 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 |
| Vincent, The Wwb Of The City Of | 2,733 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Helena, 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 Helena, The Ub Of The City 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.