Vernon Water And Sewer Board, 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.
Vernon Water And Sewer Board at a glance
Vernon Water And Sewer Board serves about 9,801 people through 3,267 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lamar County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000773; phone on file: 205-695-7302. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
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 Vernon Water And Sewer Board 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 |
How Vernon Water And Sewer Board 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. Vernon Water And Sewer Board's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 42nd percentile in Alabama and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Lamar County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vernon Water And Sewer Board. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sulligent, City Of | 2,643 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millport, Town Of | 1,410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kennedy Water Works Board | 723 | 0 (not detected) |
| Detroit Water Works | 435 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Vernon, AL
Look up your address in Vernon Water And Sewer Board'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 Vernon Water And Sewer Board 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.