Pine Apple Water Works, AL
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Pine Apple Water Works at a glance
Pine Apple Water Works serves about 390 people through 130 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 Wilcox County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001391. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (14 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Apple Water Works is 14 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 5 ppb |
How Pine Apple Water Works 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. Pine Apple Water Works's 13 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Alabama and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Wilcox County
5 other systems share Wilcox County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine Apple Water Works. 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) |
| Millers Ferry Water Authority Inc. | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cwm Water Authority | 1,749 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pine Apple, 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 Pine Apple 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.