Escambia Community Utilities Llc, AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
About Escambia Community Utilities Llc
Escambia Community Utilities Llc serves about 1,500 people through 500 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 Escambia County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000563; phone on file: 251-446-1617. 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 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Escambia Community Utilities Llc is 13.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (3 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 13.5 ppb over 10 |
How Escambia Community Utilities Llc 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. Escambia Community Utilities Llc's 2 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Alabama and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Escambia County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Escambia Community Utilities Llc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| West Escambia Utilities, Inc. | 12,060 | 0.9 ppb |
| Brewton, The Wwb Of The City Of | 11,430 | 2 ppb |
| Mccall Water System Inc | 8,400 | 1.6 ppb |
| Freemanville Water System, Inc. | 3,414 | 3.2 ppb |
| East Brewton, The Wwb Of The Town Of | 2,994 | 3.6 ppb |
| Flomaton, Town Of | 2,409 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverview Water Works | 903 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pollard, Town Of | 216 | 3.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Atmore, 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 Escambia Community Utilities Llc 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.