Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #3, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.61 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #3 at a glance
Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #3 serves about 235 people through 133 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Choctaw County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK3001209; phone on file: 580-326-5102. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #3's lead record
That is down 1.32 ppb from 1.93 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #3 is 1.93 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.61 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.93 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.15 ppb |
How Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #3 compares
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. Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #3's 0.61 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Oklahoma and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Choctaw County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hugo Municipal Authority | 5,536 | 1.93 ppb |
| Choctaw Co. Rwd #1 | 2,300 | 0.83 ppb |
| Boswell Public Works Authority | 932 | 0.89 ppb |
| Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #6 | 850 | 2.77 ppb |
| Fort Towson | 611 | 1.3 ppb |
| Choctaw Co. Rwd #2 | 373 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soper | 300 | 0.28 ppb |
| Salt Creek Camp South | 80 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sawyer, 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 Choctaw Co. Rwsg & Swmd #3 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.