Is Leeds, AL tap water safe?
The short answer
None of the 4 utilities serving Leeds has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Alabama’s records.
Leeds Water Works Board, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and Alabama’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
The water from Leeds Water Works Board is hard, 176 mg/L (10.3 grains per gallon). How Alabama’s water compares.
A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Leeds’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Leeds Water Works Board
Alabama · serves 21,300 people · about 3,800 in Leeds
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: hard, 176 mg/L (10.3 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
City of Trussville, Ub of the
Alabama · serves 36,300 people · about 880 in Leeds
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: hard, 159 mg/L (9.3 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
Central Alabama Water
Alabama · serves 653,322 people · about 790 in Leeds
2 results above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.2 ppb, above the health goal. Hardness: moderately hard, 110 mg/L (6.4 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
Cook Springs Water Authority
Alabama · serves 4,569 people · about 310 in Leeds
1 result above the health goal. The worst: PFOA at 4.0 ppt, above the health goal. Hardness: very hard, 181 mg/L (10.6 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Leeds
The 3 labs Alabama certifies closest to Leeds, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Guardian Systems
Leeds, AL · about 4 miles
Certified for bacteria
Sutherland Environmental Testing Laboratory
Birmingham, AL · about 15 miles
Living Water Services
Alabaster, AL · about 29 miles
Certified for bacteria
Alabama Department of Public Health: Bacteria testing for private wells. Call your county health department to have an environmentalist collect the sample, or collect it yourself in a container from the county health department; there may be a collection fee and a testing fee. Well Water, Alabama Department of Public Health.
All 64 certified labs for AlabamaWhich ZIP codes are in Leeds: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: ADEM, certified bacteriological, chemical and PFAS drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.
Near Leeds
Other towns in Jefferson County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Leeds Water Works Board’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water