East Monroe County Water Users, AR
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 24 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
East Monroe County Water Users serves about 833 people through 333 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 Monroe County, Arkansas. EPA system ID: AR0000715; phone on file: 870-734-2351. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Monroe County Water Users is 24 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 24 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
Of the 190 Arkansas systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 15 are over 15 ppb right now and 19 have gone over at some point. East Monroe County Water Users's 24 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Arkansas and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Monroe County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Monroe County Water Users. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brinkley Waterworks | 3,125 | 4 ppb |
| Holly Grove Waterworks | 1,557 | - |
| Clarendon Waterworks | 1,320 | - |
| United Water Association | 473 | - |
| Roe Waterworks | 124 | - |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask East Monroe County Water Users 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.