Cowarts Water System, Town Of, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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.
Cowarts Water System, Town Of at a glance
Cowarts Water System, Town Of serves about 2,469 people through 754 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 Houston County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000678; phone on file: 334-792-8920. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cowarts Water System, Town Of is 5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 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. Cowarts Water System, Town Of's 1.2 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Alabama and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Houston County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cowarts Water System, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dothan Utilities, City Of | 97,146 | 3.2 ppb |
| Taylor, City Of | 9,339 | 7.3 ppb |
| Houston County Water Authority | 4,902 | 1.1 ppb |
| Ashford Water Works, City Of | 3,816 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cottonwood, Town Of | 3,570 | 1.7 ppb |
| Kinsey Water System | 2,010 | 1.3 ppb |
| Webb Water System | 1,521 | 2.7 ppb |
| Columbia Water Works | 1,179 | 1 ppb |
| Avon Water System | 495 | 0.7 ppb |
| Gordon, Town Of | 414 | 11.8 ppb |
Next steps for Cowarts, AL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cowarts, 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 Cowarts Water System, Town Of 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.