Corral Kreek Subdiv, OK
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
Corral Kreek Subdiv serves about 273 people through 97 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: OK3001119; phone on file: 918-316-1651. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Corral Kreek Subdiv is 20 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 20 ppb over 15 |
How Corral Kreek Subdiv 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. Corral Kreek Subdiv's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Oklahoma and the 18th 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 Corral Kreek Subdiv. 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 |
Next steps for Tahlequah, OK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tahlequah, 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 Corral Kreek Subdiv 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.