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Prattville, The Ww Board Of The City Of, AL

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.52 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.

Prattville, The Ww Board Of The City Of at a glance

Prattville, The Ww Board Of The City Of serves about 46,614 people through 15,538 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Autauga County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000017; phone on file: 334-365-6783. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Prattville, The Ww Board Of The City Of's lead record

Against the period ending 2022 (3.37 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Prattville, The Ww Board Of The City Of is 3.85 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20253.52 ppb
20223.37 ppb
20193.85 ppb
20161 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. Prattville, The Ww Board Of The City Of's 3.52 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Alabama and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).

Nearby utilities

5 other systems share Autauga County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Prattville, The Ww Board Of The City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Marbury Water System, Inc.8,6700 (not detected)
Autauga Co Water Authority7,7100 (not detected)
West Autauga Water Authority5,1060 (not detected)
Autaugaville Water Works1,4940 (not detected)
Billingsley Water System1,4400 (not detected)

Next steps for Prattville, AL

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Prattville, 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 Prattville, The Ww Board Of The City 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.