West Lawrence Water Coop, 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.
About West Lawrence Water Coop
West Lawrence Water Coop serves about 15,669 people through 5,223 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 Lawrence County, Alabama. EPA system ID: AL0000801; phone on file: 256-974-9114. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.5 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for West Lawrence Water Coop is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 5 ppb |
How West Lawrence Water Coop 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. West Lawrence Water Coop's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 47th percentile in Alabama and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Lawrence County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than West Lawrence Water Coop. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moulton Water Works Board | 9,585 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Creek Water System | 1,527 | 0.64 ppb |
| Lexington W.D. Rascaltown Community | 217 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in West Lawrence Water Coop'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 West Lawrence Water Coop 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.