Pennington, Utilities Board Of, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.5 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.
Pennington, Utilities Board Of at a glance
Pennington, Utilities Board Of serves about 1,080 people through 360 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 Choctaw County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000244. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.8 ppb from 2.7 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pennington, Utilities Board Of is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.8 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. Pennington, Utilities Board Of's 4.5 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Alabama and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Choctaw County
4 other systems share Choctaw County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pennington, Utilities Board Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gilbertown, Utilities Board Of Town Of | 8,157 | 3.8 ppb |
| Butler Water System | 4,590 | 2.7 ppb |
| North Choctaw Water & Sewer Authority | 3,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Choctaw-Edna Water Authority, Inc. | 819 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Pennington, AL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pennington, 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 Pennington, Utilities Board 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.