Devalls Bluff Waterworks, AR

No lead results on file with EPA

Latest 90th-percentile lead: no result on file. The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. EPA's database has no Lead and Copper Rule results for this system. Without them there is nothing to go on, so a tap test is the only way to know.

Devalls Bluff Waterworks at a glance

Devalls Bluff Waterworks serves about 600 people through 297 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 Prairie County, Arkansas. EPA system ID: AR0000450; phone on file: 870-998-2577. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Neighbouring systems

4 other systems share Prairie County. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

What to do in your house

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Devalls Bluff, AR 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 Devalls Bluff Waterworks 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.