Talladega-Shelby Water Treatment Plant, AL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Talladega-Shelby Water Treatment Plant at a glance
Talladega-Shelby Water Treatment Plant serves about 32 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small 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: AL0001261; phone on file: 205-670-6545. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Talladega-Shelby Water Treatment Plant's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Talladega-Shelby Water Treatment Plant is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Talladega-Shelby Water Treatment Plant's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in Alabama and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Talladega County
11 other systems share Talladega County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Talladega-Shelby Water Treatment Plant. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sylacauga Utilities Board | 24,087 | 0.58 ppb |
| 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 |
Next steps for Sterrett, AL
Look up your address in Talladega-Shelby Water Treatment Plant'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 Talladega-Shelby Water Treatment Plant 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.