Jacksonville Water Works Gas And Sewer, 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.
Jacksonville Water Works Gas And Sewer at a glance
Jacksonville Water Works Gas And Sewer serves about 14,217 people through 4,739 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 Calhoun County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000154. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jacksonville Water Works Gas And Sewer is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1 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. Jacksonville Water Works Gas And Sewer's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 45th percentile in Alabama and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Calhoun County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Jacksonville Water Works Gas And Sewer. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Anniston Alabama, The Wwsb Of The City O | 56,865 | 1.71 ppb |
| Calhoun County Water Authority | 32,796 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oxford Water Works & Sewer Board | 31,239 | 1 ppb |
| Piedmont Utilities Board | 8,073 | 0 (not detected) |
| Weaver, City Of | 7,050 | 1.1 ppb |
| Ohatchee Water System | 1,686 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hobson City Water System | 627 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Jacksonville Water Works Gas And Sewer'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 Jacksonville Water Works Gas And Sewer 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.