Deer Creek Rural Water Corp, OK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Deer Creek Rural Water Corp at a glance
Deer Creek Rural Water Corp serves about 5,500 people through 2,597 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2005504; phone on file: 405-348-0285. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Deer Creek Rural Water Corp's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Deer Creek Rural Water Corp is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Deer Creek Rural Water Corp 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. Deer Creek Rural Water Corp's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 39th percentile in Oklahoma and the 35th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
35 other systems share Oklahoma County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Deer Creek Rural Water Corp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City | 644,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edmond Pwa | 79,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| Midwest City | 55,935 | 1.2 ppb |
| Tinker Air Force Base | 24,645 | 0 (not detected) |
| Del City | 22,128 | 1.6 ppb |
| Bethany | 20,307 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrah | 4,190 | 1.1 ppb |
| Nichols Hills | 4,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Choctaw Ua | 3,926 | 11.4 ppb |
| Spencer | 3,746 | 2.3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Deer Creek Rural Water Corp'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 Deer Creek Rural Water Corp 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.