Depew, OK
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (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.
About Depew
Depew serves about 555 people through 205 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 Creek County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2001903; phone on file: 918-324-5251. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (2.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Depew is 48.8 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 48.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Depew 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. Depew's 1.9 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Oklahoma and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Creek County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Depew. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sapulpa | 19,702 | 5.9 ppb |
| Creek Co Rwd # 2 | 12,788 | 1.4 ppb |
| Sapulpa Rural Water Company | 5,810 | 0 (not detected) |
| Creek Co Rwd # 1 | 5,675 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mannford | 3,935 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bristow Municipal Authority | 3,700 | 5 ppb |
| Consolidated Rwd #3 Creek Co | 3,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Drumright | 2,876 | 2.8 ppb |
| Creek Co Rwd # 5 | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Creek Co Rwd # 7 | 2,100 | 1.9 ppb |
Next steps for Depew, OK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Depew, 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 Depew 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.