Us Army Garrison-Redstone Arsenal, 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.
Us Army Garrison-Redstone Arsenal at a glance
Us Army Garrison-Redstone Arsenal serves about 44,472 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws surface water, in Madison County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000899; phone on file: 256-955-8230. 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 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Us Army Garrison-Redstone Arsenal is 9 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 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 9 ppb |
How Us Army Garrison-Redstone Arsenal 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. Us Army Garrison-Redstone Arsenal's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 53rd percentile in Alabama and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Madison County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Us Army Garrison-Redstone Arsenal. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Huntsville Utilities Water Dept. | 310,107 | 0 (not detected) |
| Madison County Water Department | 119,100 | 2.04 ppb |
| Madison, The W & Ww Board Of The City Of | 54,114 | 0.55 ppb |
| Harvest-Monrovia W,S, And Fp, Inc. | 51,915 | 0 (not detected) |
| Owens Crossroads Water Authority | 13,569 | 1.36 ppb |
| Triana Water Works | 7,038 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Hope Water System | 6,231 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gurley Water System | 1,155 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Us Army Garrison-Redstone Arsenal'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 Us Army Garrison-Redstone Arsenal 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.