Buckskin Artists Community, AZ
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Buckskin Artists Community serves about 320 people through 129 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Navajo County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0409305; phone on file: 928-535-4961. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Buckskin Artists Community's lead record
That is down 2.2 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buckskin Artists Community is 60 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 60 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 730 Arizona systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 58 have gone over at some point. Buckskin Artists Community's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th percentile in Arizona and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Navajo County
39 other systems share Navajo County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buckskin Artists Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Show Low | 17,139 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arizona Water Co - Overgaard | 13,797 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arizona Water Co - Lakeside | 12,191 | 7.8 ppb |
| Winslow City Of | 9,789 | 0 (not detected) |
| Snowflake Town Of | 5,590 | 1.7 ppb |
| Ponderosa Dwid | 5,375 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holbrook City Of | 4,833 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Taylor | 4,190 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arizona Water Co - Pinetop Lakes | 3,558 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pinetop Water Community Facilities Dist | 3,250 | 10 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Heber, AZ 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 Buckskin Artists Community 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.