Sylacauga Utilities Board, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.58 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.
Sylacauga Utilities Board at a glance
Sylacauga Utilities Board serves about 24,087 people through 8,050 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 Talladega County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001258; phone on file: 256-401-2536. 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 (0.68 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sylacauga Utilities Board is 1.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.58 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.68 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.53 ppb |
How Sylacauga Utilities Board 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. Sylacauga Utilities Board's 0.58 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Alabama and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Talladega County
11 other systems share Talladega County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sylacauga Utilities Board. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Talladega Water & Sewer Dept, City Of | 20,250 | 1 ppb |
| Lincoln, City Of | 13,923 | 2.7 ppb |
| Childersburg Water & Sewer Board | 9,777 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fayetteville Water Authority | 5,865 | 0 (not detected) |
| Talladega County Water Department | 4,749 | 0 (not detected) |
| Munford Water Authority, Inc. | 4,467 | 0 (not detected) |
| Central Talladega County Water District | 3,600 | 0.83 ppb |
| Sycamore Water & Sewer Authority | 1,728 | 0 (not detected) |
| Water Works, Inc. | 594 | 1.5 ppb |
| Waldo, Town Of | 426 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Sylacauga, AL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sylacauga, 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 Sylacauga Utilities Board 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.