Eagar Town Of, AZ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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
Eagar Town Of serves about 4,590 people through 2,154 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Apache County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0401004; phone on file: 928-245-5914. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eagar Town Of is 2.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 730 Arizona systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 58 have gone over at some point. Eagar Town Of's 1.2 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Arizona and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Apache County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Eagar Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| St Johns City Of | 3,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Springerville Town Of | 1,972 | 0 (not detected) |
| Petrified Forest Np | 1,742 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Grove Water Company | 1,564 | 1.4 ppb |
| Alpine Dwid | 1,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lord Az Water 2 - Winchester Trails | 1,289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Livco Water Company | 1,120 | 6 ppb |
| Aspc Apache | 540 | 5.9 ppb |
| Sanders School District | 350 | 1.5 ppb |
| Timber Knoll Dwid | 153 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Eagar, AZ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eagar, AZ 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 Eagar Town Of 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.