Braggs Water Works, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Braggs Water Works
Braggs Water Works serves about 1,030 people through 619 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 Muskogee County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2005104; phone on file: 918-487-5952. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Braggs Water Works is 2.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Oklahoma systems
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. Braggs Water Works's 2.6 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Oklahoma and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Muskogee County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Braggs Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Muskogee Municipal Authority | 38,310 | 5.4 ppb |
| Porum Pwa | 5,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort Gibson | 4,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Muskogee Co. Rwd #5 | 4,135 | 2.3 ppb |
| Muskogee Co. Rwd #6 | 2,550 | 0 (not detected) |
| Muskogee Co. Rwd #1 (Oktaha) | 2,280 | 0 (not detected) |
| Warner | 2,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Haskell Pwa-Wells | 1,765 | 2.6 ppb |
| Muskogee Co. Rwd #7 | 1,710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Muskogee Co. Rwd #3 | 1,300 | 1.7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Braggs, 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 Braggs Water Works 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.