Cherokee Co. Rwd # 16 (Lakewood), OK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2028). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Cherokee Co. Rwd # 16 (Lakewood)
Cherokee Co. Rwd # 16 (Lakewood) serves about 200 people through 254 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK1021731; phone on file: 918-207-9436. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cherokee Co. Rwd # 16 (Lakewood)'s lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherokee Co. Rwd # 16 (Lakewood) is 3.11 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.11 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.31 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Cherokee Co. Rwd # 16 (Lakewood)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Oklahoma and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Cherokee County
22 other systems share Cherokee County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cherokee Co. Rwd # 16 (Lakewood). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tahlequah Pwa | 14,458 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co. Rwd #11 | 3,395 | 1.1 ppb |
| Stickross Mountain Water Co | 3,250 | 2.2 ppb |
| Cherokee Co. Rwd #3 (Grandview) | 2,300 | 1 ppb |
| Peggs Water Company | 1,925 | 2.5 ppb |
| Cherokee Co. Rwd #13 | 1,640 | 2 ppb |
| Cherokee Co. Rwd #2 (Keys) | 1,493 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hulbert Pwa | 1,007 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co. Rwd #1 (Ft Gibson) | 710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Co. Rwd #7 (Welling) | 418 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Cherokee Co. Rwd # 16 (Lakewood)'s service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Cherokee Co. Rwd # 16 (Lakewood) 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.