Mid-Central Water Authority, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Who runs the water here
Mid-Central Water Authority serves about 2,325 people through 775 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 surface water, in Clarke County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001513; phone on file: 334-636-5092. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.2 ppb from 4.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mid-Central Water Authority is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
How Mid-Central Water Authority compares
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. Mid-Central Water Authority's 1 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Alabama and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Clarke County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mid-Central Water Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson Water Works & Sewer Board | 11,715 | 0 (not detected) |
| Thomasville Water Works & Sewer Board | 6,897 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grove Hill Water Works | 5,280 | 4.1 ppb |
| Old Line Water System | 5,145 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coffeeville Utiliies Board | 2,730 | 11 ppb |
| North Clarke Water Authority | 984 | 2.1 ppb |
| Fulton, Utilities Board Of The Town Of | 534 | 5.7 ppb |
Next steps for Fulton, AL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fulton, 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 Mid-Central Water Authority 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.