Littleville Water Works, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.2 ppb (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. 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.
About Littleville Water Works
Littleville Water Works serves about 3,576 people through 1,192 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: AL0000320; phone on file: 256-332-3567. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.63 ppb from 1.83 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Littleville Water Works is 2.25 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.83 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.25 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. Littleville Water Works's 0.2 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Alabama and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Colbert County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Littleville Water Works. 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) |
| Hawk Pride Mt Water System | 4,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Russellville, 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 Littleville Water Works whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 765000 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.