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Wolf Creek Water Authority, AL

Lead reported as not detected

Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.

Wolf Creek Water Authority at a glance

Wolf Creek Water Authority serves about 1,083 people through 361 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in St. Clair County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001219; phone on file: 205-338-6000. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.

Lead results over time

Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wolf Creek Water Authority is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20260 (not detected)
20230 (not detected)
20201.3 ppb
20175 ppb

Where this result ranks

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. Wolf Creek Water Authority's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Alabama and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.

Neighbouring systems

15 other systems share St. Clair County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wolf Creek Water Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Odenville, Utillities Bd. Of The Town Of26,0222 ppb
Pell City, City Of17,5861 ppb
Margaret, The Wwb Of The Town Of8,0702 ppb
New London Water & Fp Authority6,8430 (not detected)
Springville, City Of6,4680 (not detected)
Wattsville Water Authority5,0970 (not detected)
Cook Springs Water Authority4,5690 (not detected)
Ashville, City Of4,1074 ppb
Riverside, City Of3,8640 (not detected)
Ragland, The Wwb Of The Town Of3,2430 (not detected)

What to do in your house

Look up your address in Wolf Creek Water Authority'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 Wolf Creek Water Authority 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.