Millers Ferry Water Authority Inc., AL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Millers Ferry Water Authority Inc. at a glance
Millers Ferry Water Authority Inc. serves about 1,800 people through 600 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 Wilcox County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001760; phone on file: 334-682-9611. 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 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Millers Ferry Water Authority Inc. is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Millers Ferry Water Authority Inc.'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Alabama and the 30th 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 Wilcox County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Millers Ferry Water Authority Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wilcox County Water And Sewer District | 6,144 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camden, City Of | 4,170 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Hill,Town Of | 2,361 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cwm Water Authority | 1,749 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Apple Water Works | 390 | 13 ppb |
Next steps for Camden, AL
Look up your address in Millers Ferry Water Authority Inc.'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 Millers Ferry Water Authority Inc. 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.