Cement, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.94 ppb (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. 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 Cement
Cement serves about 530 people through 311 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 Caddo County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK3000806; phone on file: 405-489-3222. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Cement's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.34 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cement is 13 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.94 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.34 ppb |
| 2021 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 1.62 ppb |
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. Cement's 0.94 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Oklahoma and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Caddo County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cement. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Anadarko Public Works Authority | 6,804 | 0 (not detected) |
| Caddo Co Rwd #3 | 3,900 | 2.3 ppb |
| Hinton | 2,600 | 3.1 ppb |
| Carnegie | 1,637 | 8.69 ppb |
| Apache | 1,521 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cyril | 1,168 | 1.77 ppb |
| Hydro Pwa | 1,060 | 6.4 ppb |
| Binger Pwa | 708 | 5.96 ppb |
| Fort Cobb | 667 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gracemont Pwa | 336 | 1.9 ppb |
Next steps for Cement, OK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cement, 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 Cement 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.