Swan Creek Community, AL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.9 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Swan Creek Community
Swan Creek Community serves about 327 people through 109 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Limestone County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000831; phone on file: 256-355-5392. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.9 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Swan Creek Community is 29 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 29 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
How Swan Creek Community 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. Swan Creek Community's 6.9 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Alabama and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Limestone County
2 other systems share Limestone County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Swan Creek Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Limestone County Water & Sewer Auth. | 90,900 | 0.92 ppb |
| Athens Utilities | 43,431 | 0.57 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tanner, 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 Swan Creek Community 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.