Craig Co Rws & Swmd #3, OK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Craig Co Rws & Swmd #3 at a glance
Craig Co Rws & Swmd #3 serves about 1,100 people through 613 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 Craig County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2001807; phone on file: 918-961-1295. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Craig Co Rws & Swmd #3's lead record
That is down 5.2 ppb from 5.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Craig Co Rws & Swmd #3 is 5.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Craig Co Rws & 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. Craig Co Rws & Swmd #3's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Oklahoma and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Craig County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Craig Co Rws & Swmd #3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Vinita Utilities Authority | 6,472 | 1 ppb |
| Craig Co Rwd #2 | 4,250 | 1.4 ppb |
| Ketchum Pwa | 4,025 | 1.5 ppb |
| Welch Pwa | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ironside Water District Inc | 392 | 0 (not detected) |
| Craig Co Rwd #1 | 315 | 2.7 ppb |
| Big Cabin Pwa | 293 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Jacket Pwa | 274 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Vinita Water Coop Inc | 162 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Welch, OK
Look up your address in Craig Co Rws & Swmd #3'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 Craig Co Rws & 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. 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.