Wayne Co. B.P.U. #3, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2028). 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.
About Wayne Co. B.P.U. #3
Wayne Co. B.P.U. #3 serves about 119 people through 47 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 Wayne County, Alabama. EPA system ID: TN0000934. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wayne Co. B.P.U. #3 is 5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Wayne Co. B.P.U. #3 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. Wayne Co. B.P.U. #3's 1 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Alabama and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Florence, AL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Florence, 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 Wayne Co. B.P.U. #3 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.