Elmore City, OK
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.12 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Elmore City serves about 756 people through 413 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 surface water, in Garvin County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2002521; phone on file: 580-788-2345. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.37 ppb from 5.49 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Elmore City is 15.44 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.12 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.49 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.45 ppb |
| 2016 | 15.44 ppb over 15 |
Against other Oklahoma systems
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. Elmore City's 3.12 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Oklahoma and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Garvin County
12 other systems share Garvin County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Elmore City. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pauls Valley | 6,256 | 6.25 ppb |
| Lindsay Pwa | 2,850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wynnewood Water & Light | 2,307 | 1.18 ppb |
| Garvin Co Rwd # 6 (Wells) | 1,680 | 6.2 ppb |
| Stratford | 1,575 | 2.15 ppb |
| Garvin Co Rwd #2 | 1,570 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garvin Co Rwd #1 | 1,445 | 1.7 ppb |
| Garvin Co Rwd #4 | 1,340 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maysville | 1,212 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elmore City Rw Corp | 1,107 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Elmore City, 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 Elmore City 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.