Billings Pwa, OK
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12.7 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2020). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Billings Pwa at a glance
Billings Pwa serves about 436 people through 278 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Noble County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2005201; phone on file: 580-725-3345. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 12.7 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Billings Pwa is 12.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 12.7 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
Of the 870 Oklahoma systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.81 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 66 have gone over at some point. Billings Pwa's 12.7 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Oklahoma and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Noble County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Billings Pwa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Perry Water & Light Dept | 5,230 | 6 ppb |
| Noble County Rwd #2 | 2,100 | 2.2 ppb |
| Morrison Public Works Auth. | 950 | 2.2 ppb |
| Noble Co Rwd #1 (Lucien) | 335 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marland | 325 | 3.3 ppb |
| Red Rock | 293 | 0 (not detected) |
| Otoe-Missouria Tribe | 250 | 1.3 ppb |
| Noble Co Rwd #3 | 250 | 0.7 ppb |
| Noble Co Rwd # 4 | 142 | 2.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Billings, OK 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 Billings Pwa 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.