Dozier Water Works,Town Of, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.5 ppb (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. 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.
About Dozier Water Works,Town Of
Dozier Water Works,Town Of serves about 498 people through 166 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 Crenshaw County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000387; phone on file: 334-496-3742. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (7.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dozier Water Works,Town Of is 7.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 7.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 6 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Dozier Water Works,Town Of's 7.5 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Alabama and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Crenshaw County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dozier Water Works,Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Quint-Mar Water Authority | 8,706 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Crenshaw County Water Authority | 6,075 | 0 (not detected) |
| Luverne, Ww&Sb Of The City Of | 3,903 | 4.4 ppb |
| Brantley, Town Of | 1,458 | 5.1 ppb |
| Rutledge, Town Of | 789 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenwood Water Works | 318 | 2.5 ppb |
Next steps for Dozier, AL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dozier, 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 Dozier Water Works,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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.