Water Works, Inc., AL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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.
Water Works, Inc. at a glance
Water Works, Inc. serves about 594 people through 198 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Talladega County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0001229; phone on file: 256-682-7119. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Water Works, Inc. is 5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 5 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. Water Works, Inc.'s 1.5 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Alabama and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Talladega County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Water Works, Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sylacauga Utilities Board | 24,087 | 0.58 ppb |
| Talladega Water & Sewer Dept, City Of | 20,250 | 1 ppb |
| Lincoln, City Of | 13,923 | 2.7 ppb |
| Childersburg Water & Sewer Board | 9,777 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fayetteville Water Authority | 5,865 | 0 (not detected) |
| Talladega County Water Department | 4,749 | 0 (not detected) |
| Munford Water Authority, Inc. | 4,467 | 0 (not detected) |
| Central Talladega County Water District | 3,600 | 0.83 ppb |
| Sycamore Water & Sewer Authority | 1,728 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waldo, Town Of | 426 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bessemer, 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 Water Works, 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.