Section & Dutton, Water Works Bd. Of, AL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Section & Dutton, Water Works Bd. Of serves about 35,259 people through 10,983 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Jackson County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000728; phone on file: 256-228-3614. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Section & Dutton, Water Works Bd. Of is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Section & Dutton, Water Works Bd. Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 51st percentile in Alabama and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Jackson County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Section & Dutton, Water Works Bd. Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dekalb-Jackson Water Supply District | 32,421 | 1.5 ppb |
| Scottsboro Water Sewer & Gb | 22,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson County Water Authority | 7,968 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cumberland Mountain Water & Fpa | 5,880 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bridgeport Utilities Board | 5,505 | 0.79 ppb |
| Stevenson, Util. Board Of The Town Of | 4,101 | 0.7 ppb |
| Pisgah Water Department | 1,407 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bluff Creek Mobile Home Park | 124 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Rainsville, AL
Look up your address in Section & Dutton, Water Works Bd. 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 Section & Dutton, Water Works Bd. 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.