Ramer Water Company, Inc., AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (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. 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 Ramer Water Company, Inc.
Ramer Water Company, Inc. serves about 1,398 people through 466 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 Montgomery County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001074; phone on file: 334-562-3333. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (2.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ramer Water Company, Inc. is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.9 ppb |
| 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. Ramer Water Company, Inc.'s 2.5 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Alabama and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Montgomery County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ramer Water Company, Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Montgomery, The Ww&Ssb Of The City Of | 276,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pintlala Water System, Inc. | 5,343 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Level Water Authority | 2,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Snowdoun Water System Inc | 2,550 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sellers Station Water System, Inc. | 1,644 | 1.4 ppb |
| Pilgrim-Providence Water Authority | 588 | 2.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ramer, 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 Ramer Water Company, 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.