Drumright, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.8 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Drumright serves about 2,876 people through 1,712 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: OK2001902; phone on file: 918-352-2610. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Drumright's lead record
That is up 2.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Drumright is 2.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Drumright 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. Drumright's 2.8 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Oklahoma and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Creek County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Drumright. 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) |
| Creek Co Rwd # 5 | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Creek Co Rwd # 7 | 2,100 | 1.9 ppb |
| Oilton | 1,435 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Drumright, OK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Drumright, 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 Drumright 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.