Broken Bow Pwa, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.25 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.
Who runs the water here
Broken Bow Pwa serves about 4,320 people through 1,958 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 surface water, in Mccurtain County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK1010214; phone on file: 580-584-3407. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (2.49 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Broken Bow Pwa is 2.49 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.25 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.49 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.18 ppb |
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. Broken Bow Pwa's 2.25 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Oklahoma and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Mccurtain County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Broken Bow Pwa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Idabel Pwa | 6,952 | 1.41 ppb |
| Mccurtain Co. Rwd #8 (Mt. Fork Water) | 5,685 | 7.91 ppb |
| Mccurtain Co. Rwd #1 | 3,842 | 0.74 ppb |
| Mccurtain Co. Rwd #7 | 1,847 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mccurtain Co. Rwd #5 (Hochatown) | 1,614 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mccurtain Co. Rwd #9 | 999 | 4.07 ppb |
| Valliant Pwa | 971 | 1.58 ppb |
| Wright City Pwa | 792 | 0.81 ppb |
| Mccurtain Co. Rwd #2 | 755 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mccurtain Co. Rwd #6 (Kiamichi) | 600 | 1.56 ppb |
Next steps for Broken Bow, OK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Broken Bow, 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 Broken Bow 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.