Woodland Water Board, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Woodland Water Board serves about 1,527 people through 509 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 surface water, in Randolph County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001132; phone on file: 256-449-2222. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodland Water Board is 5 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Woodland Water 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. Woodland Water Board's 1 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Alabama and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Randolph County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woodland Water Board. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Randolph County Water & Sewer Authority | 11,067 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wedowee Water Sewer & Gas Board | 7,782 | 2 ppb |
| Roanoke, The Util. Bd. Of The City Of | 7,575 | 0.94 ppb |
| Wadley Utilities Board | 864 | 0 (not detected) |
| Asheboro Country Club Estates | 26 | 6 ppb |
Next steps for Woodland, AL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Woodland, 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 Woodland Water Board whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1570 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.