Fort Deposit, Ww & Sb Of The Town Of, AL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Fort Deposit, Ww & Sb Of The Town Of serves about 2,250 people through 750 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 Lowndes County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000846; phone on file: 334-227-7741. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Fort Deposit, Ww & Sb Of The Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Deposit, Ww & Sb Of The Town Of is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Fort Deposit, Ww & Sb Of The Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Alabama and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Lowndes County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Deposit, Ww & Sb Of The Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lowndes County Water System | 3,675 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hayneville, Town Of | 2,868 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mosses Water & Fire Pro Authority | 1,704 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Hall Water Board | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lowndesboro, Town Of | 1,128 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Fort Deposit, Ww & Sb Of The Town Of'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 Fort Deposit, Ww & Sb Of The 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.