Detroit Water Works, AL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Detroit Water Works serves about 435 people through 145 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lamar County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000767; phone on file: 205-273-4294. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.8 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Detroit Water Works is 5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 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. Detroit Water Works's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Alabama and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Lamar County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Detroit Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Vernon Water And Sewer Board | 9,801 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sulligent, City Of | 2,643 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millport, Town Of | 1,410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kennedy Water Works Board | 723 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Detroit Water Works's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Detroit Water Works 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.