Mobile, Bd. Of W&S Comm. Of The City Of, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Mobile, Bd. Of W&S Comm. Of The City Of
Mobile, Bd. Of W&S Comm. Of The City Of serves about 279,000 people through 93,000 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Mobile County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001005; phone on file: 251-694-9149. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 5 ppb from 6.5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mobile, Bd. Of W&S Comm. Of The City Of is 6.5 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.05 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 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. Mobile, Bd. Of W&S Comm. Of The City Of's 1.5 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Alabama and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mobile County
13 other systems share Mobile County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mobile, Bd. Of W&S Comm. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile County Water & Fire Pro Authority | 39,573 | 1.6 ppb |
| South Alabama Utilities Water System | 39,249 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prichard Water Works Board | 29,190 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saraland, Bd Of W&S Commissioners | 13,827 | 8.4 ppb |
| Grand Bay Water Works Board | 11,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Elmo-Irvington Water Authority | 10,284 | 1.2 ppb |
| Bayou La Batre, The Ub Of The City Of | 8,100 | 1.2 ppb |
| Satsuma, The Wwb Of The City Of | 7,248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kushla Water District | 6,294 | 1.6 ppb |
| Turnerville Water & Fire Pro District | 5,991 | 2.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mobile, 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 Mobile, Bd. Of W&S Comm. 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.