River Falls Water System, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
River Falls Water System at a glance
River Falls Water System serves about 1,050 people through 351 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 Covington County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000379; phone on file: 334-222-3510. 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 2022 (1.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for River Falls Water System is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
How River Falls Water System 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. River Falls Water System's 1.8 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Alabama and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Covington County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than River Falls Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Andalusia, Utilities Board Of | 15,251 | 2.9 ppb |
| Covington County Water Authority | 13,224 | 2.2 ppb |
| Opp Utilities Board | 10,266 | 3.3 ppb |
| Florala Water Works & Sewer Board | 3,834 | 0.54 ppb |
| Red Level Water Works | 855 | 3.5 ppb |
| Gantt Water System | 801 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lockhart Water Works | 726 | 2.5 ppb |
| Sanford Water System | 498 | 0.8 ppb |
| Heath Water System | 450 | 1.7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; River Falls, 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 River Falls Water System 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.