Midland City Water Department, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Midland City Water Department
Midland City Water Department serves about 3,300 people through 960 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 groundwater, in Dale County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000438; phone on file: 334-983-3511. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Midland City Water Department is 5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 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. Midland City Water Department's 1.5 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Alabama and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Dale County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Midland City Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ozark Utilities Board | 19,965 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort Rucker -American Water Enterprises | 16,774 | 1.1 ppb |
| Daleville, The Wwsb Of The City Of | 10,014 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dale County Water Authority | 7,779 | 1.2 ppb |
| Level Plains, Town Of | 3,819 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newton, The Ww And Sb Of The Town Of | 2,466 | 9.5 ppb |
| Napier Field Water System | 2,382 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pinckard, Town Of | 1,377 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ariton Water Works Board, Town Of | 1,263 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Midland City, 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 Midland City Water Department 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.