Cherokee Village Water Assoc, AR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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 Cherokee Village Water Assoc
Cherokee Village Water Assoc serves about 4,780 people through 2,962 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 groundwater, in Fulton,Sharp County, Arkansas. EPA system ID: AR0000521; phone on file: 870-257-3508. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherokee Village Water Assoc is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 190 Arkansas systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 15 are over 15 ppb right now and 19 have gone over at some point. Cherokee Village Water Assoc's 3 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Arkansas and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
2 other systems share Fulton,Sharp County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cherokee Village Water Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Highland Water Association | 2,390 | - |
| Ash Flat Water Company | 1,186 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cherokee Village, AR 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 Cherokee Village Water Assoc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.