Clayton Water Works & Sewer, AL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.87 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Clayton Water Works & Sewer at a glance
Clayton Water Works & Sewer serves about 2,064 people through 712 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 Barbour County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000082; phone on file: 334-775-3542. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Clayton Water Works & Sewer's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0.73 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Clayton Water Works & Sewer is 30.6 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.92 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 9 ppb |
| 2020 | 30.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 3.1 ppb |
Against other Alabama systems
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. Clayton Water Works & Sewer's 0.87 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Alabama and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Barbour County
8 other systems share Barbour County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Clayton Water Works & Sewer. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eufaula Water Works | 17,970 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bakerhill Water Authority | 7,056 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clio Water Works | 2,832 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cowikee Water Authority | 1,995 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Barbour Co Water Authority | 1,395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Louisville Water Works, Town Of | 1,350 | 1.3 ppb |
| Mt. Andrew Water Authority | 660 | 0.99 ppb |
| Blue Springs Water System, Town Of | 636 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Clayton, AL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clayton, 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 Clayton Water Works & Sewer whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1810 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.