Orrville Water Department, Town Of, AL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Orrville Water Department, Town Of
Orrville Water Department, Town Of serves about 435 people through 145 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Dallas County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000484; phone on file: 334-996-9726. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orrville Water Department, Town Of is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
How Orrville Water Department, Town Of 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. Orrville Water Department, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Alabama and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Dallas County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orrville Water Department, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Selma, The Ww And Sb Of The City Of | 21,834 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Dallas County Water Authority | 8,838 | 0.1 ppb |
| Dallas County Water & Sewer Authority | 4,152 | 1.3 ppb |
| West Dallas Water Authority | 3,747 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Dallas Water Authority | 3,504 | 5.1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Orrville Water Department, Town Of'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 Orrville Water Department, Town 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. 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.