Central Elmore Water & Sewer Authority, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.41 ppb (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. 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
Central Elmore Water & Sewer Authority serves about 39,798 people through 13,266 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Elmore County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000547; phone on file: 334-567-6814. 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 (0.43 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Central Elmore Water & Sewer Authority is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.41 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.43 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.42 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Central Elmore Water & Sewer Authority 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. Central Elmore Water & Sewer Authority's 0.41 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Alabama and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Elmore County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Central Elmore Water & Sewer Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elmore Water & Sewer Authority | 13,680 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holtville Water System | 12,600 | 0.23 ppb |
| Tri Community Water System | 11,832 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wetumpka, The Ww & Sb Of The City Of | 10,137 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tallassee Water Works | 7,512 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millbrook Utilities | 5,451 | 0.84 ppb |
| Eclectic, Water Works & Sewer Board | 5,094 | 0 (not detected) |
| Friendship Water Works | 4,425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Five Star Water Supply District | 100 | 0.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wetumpka, 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 Central Elmore Water & Sewer 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.